Re: Backport of ls_elf.so (misc/koffice - krita slow to startup)

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <201111202055.09560.nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost>,
Nat Sloss  <nathanialsloss%yahoo.com.au@localhost> wrote:
>Hi,
>
> I posted the following to pkgsrc-users:
>
>Hi,
>
>I've recently have a need to use krita and I've found a problem.
>
>Under NetBSD 5.0.1 and I think 5.1 but I'm not certain, krita takes 10 minutes 
>to start up.
>
>It seems to spend most of its time in start up in _rtld_sym functions as far 
>as 
>I can tell with gdb.  After searching around I found this thread:
>
>http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2010/02/24/msg003325.html
>
>And so I tested it with current (5.99.51) and krita only took 5s.
>
>Is there anything that can be done to the package or kdelibs3 or can I rebuild 
>ld_elf.so from current sources integrated into my NetBSD 5.0.1 source tree?
>
>Would that cause problems or am I safe in doing so? (same functions and 
>parameters etc)

It should be ok, and even if it is not, you can keep a copy of the old
ld_elf.so and then use /rescue/cp or mv to put it back.

christos