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

[Donald Allen]

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 11:16 PM, Antonio Rieser <tonyrieser at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the note.  Do you get the same error message as I do if you
> start GnuCash from the command line?  i.e.
>
> gnc.bin-Message: main: binreloc relocation support was diabled at
> configuration time.
>

Yes, I do.

/Don

>
>
> All the best,
>
>   Tony
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 10:55 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> 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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