Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> 
> After only ten hours of compiling KDE2, startkde didn't start kicker
> (ex-kpanel). After a bit of debugging, I saw this in a ktrace of
> 'startkde':
> 
> ...
>   7868 kdeinit  RET   read 4294/0x10c6
>   7868 kdeinit  PSIG  SIGSEGV SIG_DFL
>   7868 kdeinit  NAMI  "kdeinit.core"
> ...
> 
> That's after reading kicker.la. Looking at that file (attached below),
> I tried editing the dependency_libs line a bit, and after stripping out
> the most redundancy (i.e. i got it down to 6 lines), running
> "startkde" started kicker fine.

Hmm. I thought'd I'd increased the buffer for this so that it is large
enough (for now) see libtool/pathces/patch-ae

> Nick: can we make libtool optimize this a bit, please? ;-)

I'll ask in libtool land what can be done...

> (Even if each -l option leads to only one stat(), this takes it's
> time. And I don't want to investigate what's in these .la files on that
> line...!)

This should only impact compile performance now. Its used to impact
runtime, but I got that fixed.

Nick
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