Hello,
Sorry if the subject is misleading, not sure how to label this one.
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.
I have no idea if the symptom is related to libtool or not. Others have
said it is not... but that's when the problems began, just for
reference. FWIW, when I had trouble due to libtool, I simply formatted
my machine, reinstalled OS and all ports. So this issue is occurring on
a 'clean' machine.
But here is what I have found, and it looks odd to me.
Using truss, I can see that gnucash/guile is trying to open a dozen or
two files, repeatedly. It fails attempting to open it the first few
times everytime it tries to access it, because it is traversing the
LD_LIBRARY_PATH:
open("/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/local/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such
file or directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such
file or directory'
open("/usr/local/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/local/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such
file or directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/X11R6/lib/gnucash/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such
file or directory'
open("/usr/local/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("/usr/lib/libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
open("libglib-12.la",0x0,0666) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
access("/lib/libglib-12.so",4) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
access("/usr/lib/libglib-12.so",4) ERR#2 'No such file or
directory'
access("/usr/local/lib/libglib-12.so",4) = 0 (0x0)
Now I said a dozen or two files repeatedly. It is 12-20 files maybe...
but it is attempting to open them *hundreds of thousands of times*! It
goes on and on and on...
I am assuming this is what is causing the long startup time. So I have
been working towards helping it find the right files the first time
around. I have manipulated the gnucash environments LD_LIBRARY_PATH a
bit and helped some... but it is only a drop in the bucket. I have
thought of placing symlinks in the folder(s) where it first looks for
any given file, to make sure it finds the file... but this does not seem
quite right either.
What I'm wondering is.... what is the lists opinion on how to best fix
this type of a problem. Is this even the cause of my long startup?
I have spoken with one or two of the gnucash devs, they seem to think
this is unique to FreeBSD, meaning they have not seen this problem on
any other platform. They said it might have to do with how FreeBSD
handles how files are opened up many times recursively!?
If there is a more appropriate list, please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
--
Regards,
Eric
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