repeatedly opening the same .so(s) is slow?

[joerg at britannica.bec.de]

On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 10:49:57AM -0600, Eric Schuele wrote:
> I have a port (gnucash) which takes 3-4 minutes to open on a 2.6GHz 
> machine.  It used to take 15-20 seconds till all of the libtool changes.

This sounds exactly like the problems I initially had with KDE on
DragonFly. Check whether it is using libtool's dlopen wrapper, since it
seems to believe that the system dlopen either can't support hard-coded
search paths (known bug in the last 1.5 version of libtool) or can't
trace dependency libs.

Joerg