On Sun, Jan 26, 2003 at 11:26:17PM -0700, James wrote: > I recently discovered the very nice prelink package. apt-get install > prelink; prelink -a will prelink every binary on your system (in unstable at > least). I was looking forward to a nice speedup in KDE, > however, prelinking every KDE binary fails with the message "Cannot prelink > against non-PIC shared library /usr/lib/libqt-mt.so.3" > > So now I have some questions: Does prelinking the KDE libraries still do any > good? I haven't used a stopwatch, but I don't notice any difference. Why is > QT position-dependent code, and can it be made position-independent? Is it > possible to get a fully prelinked KDE in Debian unstable? >
most likely the non-PIC piece of libqt is actually pulled in from Xinerama support which will eventually get fixed once the X packages start producing a shared version of the library. However I'm not sure when that will happen. Ivan -- ---------------- Ivan E. Moore II [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://snowcrash.tdyc.com GPG KeyID=90BCE0DD GPG Fingerprint=F2FC 69FD 0DA0 4FB8 225E 27B6 7645 8141 90BC E0DD
