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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: libkio & libksycoca
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () sh ! cvut ! cz>
Date:       2001-11-30 13:26:05
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On Fri 30. November 2001 10:04, Alex Zepeda wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 11:30:40PM -0800, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > We're talking "prelinking", not "objprelinking". The FreeBSD linker guy
> > had a fix for the BSD linker that essentially had the same advantages as
> > "objprelinking", with that patch you don't need objprelinking (He send it
> > to you as well, did it go in?).
>
> Are you talking about the relocation cache?  Yes, that made it in a while
> ago.  If so, damn... it's still slow (okay, okay, I *should* switch to
> -stable to get decent SMP support).
>
> FWIW the linker guy is John Polstra - jdp.  The cvsup guy.
>
> > "prelinking" goes even a step further and basically eliminates run-time
> > linking at all. (It becomes "installation-time linking")
>
> Where's this done?

 ftp://people.redhat.com/jakub/prelink - it will hopefully become part of 
glibc-2.3 . For more info, 'gg:prelink jelinek' should do.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 llunak@suse.cz ; l.lunak@kde.org
 http://dforce.sh.cvut.cz/~seli

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