Slow startup on FreeBSD 7.1 + main: binreloc relocation support was diabled at configuration time

[Donald Allen]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 8:29 PM, Antonio Rieser <tonyrieser at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I just installed GnuCash 2.2.7, guile 1.8.5, slib 3a4, and libtool 1.5.26,
> libltdl ?  (all the latest ports cvsup) on FreeBSD 7.1 on an Acer Aspire
> 1680 (laptop).  When I start gnucash, I get the following error:
>
> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was diabled at
> configuration time.
>
> It then takes a VERY long time (~2 minutes) before I see the gnucash tip of
> the day and intro image.  The tip of the day then takes another ~1 minute
> before it will respond to a mouse-click.
>
> After a little googling, it seems that slow starting was a known problem on
> earlier versions of FreeBSD, but should have been fixed with the patches
> that came with the port.
>
> Any help would be heartily appreciated.


I've just installed FreeBSD 7.1 on two machines -- a Thinkpad G41 and a very
fast Lenovo Thinkstation. In both cases I built Gnucash 2.2.7 from source
using the ports system. While both of my systems, particularly the
workstation, are probably quite a bit faster than your laptop, on both
systems, the Gnucash startup time is very similar to that on Linux running
on the same hardware and not at all obnoxious (much less than 2 minutes)
even though my Gnucash file is quite large (~2.2 Mb). So I'm not seeing any
FreeBSD-specific slowness with Gnucash at all.

/Don

>
>
> Thanks,
>
>  Tony
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