When building X on MacOS X, is there any way to tell it to "prebind" the libraries? grepping the config directories, I didn't see anything that would do it even if I could figure out how to activate it.
Prebinding is useful, because an application linked to a prebound library starts MUCH faster. The runtime loader sees that the application is pre bound and if the libs haven't changed, it just uses the known addresses. If the lib changes, it ignores the prebinding and just acts as if it wasn't prebound. There's also a command called "redo_prebinding" which you can run on anything that's prebound if any of its dependant libs change. This is usually done after installing, as installing in case the copy operation changed the time stamp on the file. In order to do this though, libraries have to be linked with the -prebind option to ld (or -Wl,-prebind to gcc -- that's a lower case L after the -W) I'd try modifying the config to do this, but have no idea where to put it so that it goes in all the Makefiles. -- Dave Williss ------ Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with catsup _______________________________________________ Xpert mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/xpert
