On Fri, 2002-10-04 at 10:28, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> > In other words: that 2.2.93 is almost 2.3 ?
> 
> Yes, it is almost 2.3. Most of the changes between 2.2.93 and 2.3 were
> changes for non-x86 architectures.
> If you want to see startup time differences because of dynamic reloc
> reduction, compare LD_DEBUG=statistics someprogram on RHL 7.2 and 8.0.
> As for prelink, you can run as root
> prelink -avm
> and you should see startup speedup on various apps, especially large C++
> ones like konqueror, etc. It will make smaller difference on openoffice,
> since openoffice dlopens most of its shared libraries on startup instead
> of linking them in (we plan to change that soon if it makes visible
> difference).
> 
>       Jakub

Jakub, when I attempted to prelink everything on my system OpenOffice
failed to start with some kind of relocation error.  I used "undo" for
now.  Is this a known bug?  I can reproduce it again if needed and send
info, just let me know what info you want.





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