Re: More info on libldtl failure

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Tue, 30 Jan 2001, Nick Hudson wrote:
> >  Hmmm.  I think I can see why this might be... the entire deplib chain
> >  is followed and loaded for each lt_dlopen()ed module.  Perhaps I need
> >  to cache previous successes and failures to avoid repetition?  Or
> >  maybe I just need to provide an option to ignore deplibs (and emulate
> >  the old behaviour that served us so well before)?
> 
> Gary,
> 
> I believe your analysis is correct. This libltdl "feature" is causing a slow
> behaviour for my KDE2 packages for NetBSD. I've been playing with the idea
> that the deplibs should be ignored as well as they should be "auto" loaded
> by the OS

KDE's copy of libltdl doesn't follow the deplib-chain. In former times I
thought about activating it (before it was in libtools libltdl), but as it
exhibits quadratic behaviour I didn't. And I was to lazy to implement the
proper solution (a cache of already loaded .la files), so it still relies
on the OS.  What version of libltdl are you using with KDE2?


Ciao,
Michael.