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Re: Bug#72140: Setting up libraries too slow



On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
> >  Couldn't ldconfig be enhanced to act only on command-line given libraries?
> 
> The only point in running ldconfig today is to update the symlinks, which
> could also be done by a few "ln"s in "if" statements. I think there should
> be an update-lib-symlinks(8) that handles installation and removal of
> libraries.

What about ld.so's cache? Isn't ldconfig the one responsible to keep that
thing up-to-date?

One should profile ldconfig and see exactly what takes so much time.
Building the symlink trees? Reading the directory tree (ext2 is a $#%@#$ for
directories with many files)? Reading the information for the cache file?
Something else?  I don't see the point of building a strategy to try to
minimize a problem which isn't determined exactly.

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  them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
  where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
  Henrique Holschuh

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