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

[Antonio Rieser]

Thanks again.  The machine you described is roughly twice as fast as mine.
It's just that gnucash is the only program I have that does this.  Firefox,
xmms, gnumeric, and a host of other programs come up in a normal amount of
time.  I'll ask on the FreeBSD boards to see if anyone has an idea.
Otherwise, I'll just get used to turning it on and taking a break to put
some cream in my coffee!

All the best,

  Tony

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 4:46 PM, Donald Allen <donaldcallen at gmail.com>wrote:

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> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 10:18 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
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>> Antonio Rieser <tonyrieser at gmail.com> writes:
>>
>> > 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 disabled at
>> > configuration time.
>>
>> This is normal and ignorable.
>>
>
>  Yes -- I just started gnucash on a Linux system (Gentoo) and got the same
> message.
>
>>
>>
>> > 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.
>>
>> Frankly, you should ask on the FreeBSD lists..  This is a FreeBSD-only
>> problem, probably with the runtime linker.
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>
> It's possible that there is a FreeBSD-specific problem, as you say, but
> again, I emphasize that I am not seeing any difference, at least
> qualitatively, in the gnucash startup time on either of the machines I
> mentioned that I have just migrated to FreeBSD (they ran Gentoo Linux
> before). I am seeing nothing like a startup time of 2 minutes. I concede
> that in the absence of careful measurement, it's possible that the speed of
> my machines is masking the problem (while the TP G41 is no speed demon by
> today's standards -- it's vintage 2005 -- it's probably quite a bit faster
> than the Acer, with a 3 Ghz processor and a 7200 rpm disk).
>
> /Don
>
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>
>>
>>
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> >   Tony
>>
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>> -derek
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