On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 05:42:31PM +0100, Clemens Gruber wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 10:31:22AM +0100, Juergen Borleis wrote:
> > <path/to/toolchain>/sysroot-<toolchain-name>/sbin/ldconfig
> 
> Very nice, thank you! After running ldconfig on the target, running strace
> with /bin/true shows only one access for /etc/ld.so.preload before using
> the /etc/ld.so.cache successfully. That's a major improvement! Nearly 30
> syscalls less, per process :)
> 
> Now I'll just write a little ptxdist rule to call ldconfig once at
> initialization (or at every startup? Some distros seem to do that.)
> 
> If I ever want to support running opkg on the target, I should probably
> have a mechanism to automatically rerun ldconfig in case a library was
> changed.
> 
> > > I am curious: Do you also see those weird runtime paths on your ptxdist
> > > projects or is there something wrong with my toolchain / bsp build?
> > 
> > I saw these search paths on almost every system, independent of the 
> > distribution (embedded or not).
> 
> Maybe we could add a rule to ptxdist to run ldconfig by default on the
> target? Assuming that saving syscalls is beneficial for everybody?

rc.once would be the right tool for the job. I never bothered with it
because when starting an app with cold caches the startup time difference
was barely measurable.

Michael

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