Re: prelinking
On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 11:26:17PM -0700, 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? 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?
>
most likely the non-PIC piece of libqt is actually pulled in from Xinerama
support which will eventually get fixed once the X packages start producing
a shared version of the library. However I'm not sure when that will happen.
Ivan
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