Re: prelinking

[Ralf Nolden <nolden@kde.org>]

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On Montag, 27. Januar 2003 07:26, James wrote:
> I recently discovered the very nice prelink package.  apt-get install
> prelink; prelink -a will prelink every binary on your system (in unstable
> at least).  I was looking forward to a nice speedup in KDE, however,
> prelinking every KDE binary fails with the message "Cannot prelink against
> non-PIC shared library /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3"
>
> So now I have some questions:  Does prelinking the KDE libraries still do
> any good?

No, only for KDE 2.

Ralf

  I haven't used a stopwatch, but I don't notice any difference. 
> Why is QT position-dependent code, and can it be made position-independent?
>  Is it possible to get a fully prelinked KDE in Debian unstable?
>
> 	James
> for(int r=-1,c=0;r!=38;c++){if(c>r){r++;printf("\n");
> for(c=38;c!=r;c--)printf(" ");c=0;}printf(~r&c?" `":" #");}

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