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PostPosted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 11:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

And has anyone tried to compile firefox with some LDFLAGS? I am really happy having my Gentoo, but Firefox starts in 10 seconds. Firefox-bin in 6 seconds. I want Firefox to start in 5 seconds. Will LDFLAGS do a trick?
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 8:46 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

These are packages I've had trouble emerging with --as-needed. They compile fine without it.

  • app-text/tetex-2.0.x though version 3.0.x compiles fine
  • dev-lisp/sbcl-0.9.4
  • media-libs/netpbm-10.30-r1
  • media-sound/hydrogen-0.9.0
  • media-sound/swami-0.9.2
  • x11-libs/fltk-1.1.6


On the other hand, here's some in the list that are fixed in these later versions.

  • dev-util/kdevelop-3.3.0
  • net-p2p/amule-2.1.0-r1
  • x11-libs/wxGTK-2.6.1-r1


Gabrys wrote:
And has anyone tried to compile firefox with some LDFLAGS? I am really happy having my Gentoo, but Firefox starts in 10 seconds. Firefox-bin in 6 seconds. I want Firefox to start in 5 seconds. Will LDFLAGS do a trick?


I've compiled Firefox with "-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--as-needed" (whole system is that way, except the few remaining packages that break) and haven't had any problems. I can't tell you if it loads any faster than without, since I use Konqueror as my main browser, so never got a feel for Firefox's previous loading time on here.
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PostPosted: Sat Jan 28, 2006 12:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I have already compiled Fx with LDFLAGS mentioned above. I didn't noticed any speedup. In contrast there was a nice speedup of the system (not only Fx) when migrating my filesystem to reiserfs. It seems to me, that playing with LDFLAGS is not worth all the trouble they make. At least for me ;).
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Has anyone noticed problems with compiling using --as-needed with the experimental glibc 2.4 and gcc 4.1?

I've been having issues with anything that tries to link against libcairo.so with the error:

i686-pc-linux-gnu-gcc -pedantic -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wnested-externs -std=c89 -U__STRICT_ANSI__ -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-Bdirect -Wl,-hashvals -Wl,-zdynsort -Wl,--as-needed -L/usr/lib -o xscreensaver-demo-Gtk prefs.o dpms.o remote.o exec.o ../utils/resources.o ../utils/usleep.o ../utils/visual.o demo-Gtk.o demo-Gtk-conf.o -L/usr/lib \
-Wl,--export-dynamic -lglade-2.0 -lgtk-x11-2.0 -lxml2 -lz -lgdk-x11-2.0 -latk-1.0 -lpangocairo-1.0 -lpango-1.0 -lcairo -lgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lXmu -lXpm -lgdk_pixbuf_xlib-2.0 -lgdk_pixbuf-2.0 -lm -lgobject-2.0 -lgmodule-2.0 -ldl -lglib-2.0 -lSM -lICE \
-lXt -lX11 -lXext
/usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined reference to `__popcountsi2@GCC_3.4'
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [xscreensaver-demo-Gtk] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/var/tmp/portage/xscreensaver-4.23-r1/work/xscreensaver-4.23/driver'
make: *** [default] Error 5

I used to use this flag with gcc-4.1 before moving to the new glibc and if the flag is removed it works just fine

Any one have any ideas or even better patches?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 11:58 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gabrys wrote:
I have already compiled Fx with LDFLAGS mentioned above. I didn't noticed any speedup. In contrast there was a nice speedup of the system (not only Fx) when migrating my filesystem to reiserfs. It seems to me, that playing with LDFLAGS is not worth all the trouble they make. At least for me ;).
I think firefox ebuild strips all LDFLAGS by default so you should use custom ebuild if you want to see any speedup with it.
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 12:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

So can you tell me why it starts so slowly?
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PostPosted: Sat Feb 11, 2006 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

This is not correct it uses the flags:
Code:
readelf -d firefox-bin

Dynamic section at offset 0x10bd4 contains 31 entries:
  Tag        Type                         Name/Value
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libmozjs.so]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libxpcom_core.so]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libplc4.so.6]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libnspr4.so.6]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libpthread.so.0]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libX11.so.6]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libstdc++.so.6]
 0x00000001 (NEEDED)                     Shared library: [libc.so.6]
 0x0000000f (RPATH)                      Library rpath: [$ORIGIN:/usr/lib/nspr]
 0x0000001d (RUNPATH)                    Library runpath: [$ORIGIN:/usr/lib/nspr]

As you see it links to only 10 libs :)
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PostPosted: Sun Feb 26, 2006 1:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just did an emerge -e world and these were the programs that failed to compile:

media-gfx/pornview-0.2.0_pre1
media-plugins/xmms-alsa-1.2.10-r3
media-plugins/xmms-mikmod-1.2.10
media-plugins/xmms-vorbis-1.2.10-r1
media-plugins/xmms-sndfile-1.2
media-plugins/xmms-jack-0.16
media-plugins/xmms-mpg123-1.2.10-r1
media-plugins/xmms-btexmms-0.5
media-plugins/xmms-cdaudio-1.2.10-r1
media-sound/xmms-1.2.10-r15
dev-libs/expat-1.95.8
mail-client/evolution-2.4.2.1
net-wireless/gnome-bluetooth-0.7.0
media-sound/alsa-tools-1.0.11_rc3
net-misc/openssh-4.2_p1-r1
media-sound/ardour-0.99.2
dev-util/anjuta-1.2.4-r1
media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.7
media-video/transcode-1.0.2-r2
xfce-base/xffm-4.2.3
media-libs/gle-3.0.1-r2
app-misc/mc-4.6.0-r14

Not bad out of 750+ programs installed :)
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 28, 2006 11:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, another annoying issue. Even if I parse LDFLAGS="" emerge boinc it still seems to be compiling with my LDFLAGS, so I went into make.conf and commented them out and it STILL does it >.< Any ideas? The actual error is...

Quote:
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.1 assertion fail /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.1-r1/work/binutils-2.16.1/bfd/elflink.c:2334
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.1 assertion fail /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.1-r1/work/binutils-2.16.1/bfd/elflink.c:2335
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.1 assertion fail /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.1-r1/work/binutils-2.16.1/bfd/elflink.c:2334
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: BFD 2.16.1 internal error, aborting at /var/tmp/portage/binutils-2.16.1-r1/work/binutils-2.16.1/bfd/elflink.c line 6518 in elf_link_output_extsym

/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/3.4.5/../../../../x86_64-pc-linux-gnu/bin/ld: Please report this bug.


As it is still parsing....

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boinc_gui-hyperlink.o -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-Bdirect -Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,--enable-new-dtags -Wl,-Bdirect -Wl,--as-needed -L/var/tmp/portage/boinc-5.2.14/work/boinc-5.2.14/lib -L/usr/lib64 -L/usr/lib
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PostPosted: Sat Mar 04, 2006 12:11 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It is coming from some la or pkg-config files, you should find, in which package and eradicate it or somehow filter the boinc make files after ./configure :(
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 05, 2006 1:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well Boinc doesn't work after an emerge -e world without those LDFLAGS so we can assume it's Boincs fault.
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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 8:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

x11-misc/fbpanel-4.3 fails for no apparent reason, works without.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 4:28 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

app-admin/xstow-0.5.1 fails too.
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PostPosted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 11:48 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ok, I can't be the only one here, to be honest, despite commands telling me less libraries are being linked, I've noticed no speedup whatsoever...
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:07 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gabrys wrote:
So can you tell me why it starts so slowly?


My firefox starts in about 4-5 seconds. The only thing I can think of that I've done is prelinking:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-231170-highlight-speed.html
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/prelink-howto.xml
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

sys-fs/captive fails as well.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:43 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is a general misunderstanding on this, probably the thread must be renamed to sth like "--as-needed LDFLAG helping us maintain our systems", there could be speed-up but this will be mostly unnoticable, and it is not the main gain of using it.
Look for example what is happening in the libexpat-2.0.0 ABI_breakage thread, this ldflag could prevent such disasters and that is what it is really good at.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 1:58 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gergan Penkov wrote:
Look for example what is happening in the libexpat-2.0.0 ABI_breakage thread, this ldflag could prevent such disasters and that is what it is really good at.

flameeyes has a nice blog post about this, the case of the missing --as-needed.

And the fixing guide is here.
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well after such postings, one could really feel a little better or at least not as the last dumb ricer :)
I knew that flameeyes is vocal supporter of --as-needed, as I have read some of his earlier blogs, but I haven't expected that this leads to contention with some of the other devs.
Pity as this one is really usefull - I hope that the wisest will prevail :)
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Quick question:

Presently my LDFLAGS are:
Code:
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,-Bdirect -Wl,-hashvals -Wl,-zdynsort"


Does --sort-common cause any performance issues?
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--sort-common
    This option tells ld to sort the common symbols by size when it places them in the appropriate output sections. First come all the one byte symbols, then all the two byte, then all the four byte, and then everything else. This is to prevent gaps between symbols due to alignment constraints.


And how would I add --as-needed to my LDFLAGS?
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PostPosted: Sat Apr 08, 2006 9:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

vipernicus wrote:
Quick question:

Presently my LDFLAGS are:
Code:
LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--sort-common -Wl,-Bdirect -Wl,-hashvals -Wl,-zdynsort"


What does --sort-common do for me? And how would I add --as-needed to my LDFLAGS?


--sort-common lays the resulting binary out better (it organizes it in a better way). -Wl,--as-needed.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 12:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

media-sound/id3v2-0.1.11 fails with alot of undefined references.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gergan Penkov wrote:
Well after such postings, one could really feel a little better or at least not as the last dumb ricer :)
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Pity as this one is really usefull - I hope that the wisest will prevail :)

Well it seems that the wiser ones have prevailed - there is an official bug-tracker about --as-needed bugs - https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129413
I don't know what is the policy, but bugs with patches should be ok.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:04 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gergan Penkov wrote:
Well it seems that the wiser ones have prevailed - there is an official bug-tracker about --as-needed bugs - https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129413
I don't know what is the policy, but bugs with patches should be ok.

Hurray, i can finally get rid of my package.ldflags (well at least try) :wink:
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PostPosted: Fri Apr 28, 2006 11:00 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gergan Penkov wrote:

Well it seems that the wiser ones have prevailed - there is an official bug-tracker about --as-needed bugs - https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=129413
I don't know what is the policy, but bugs with patches should be ok.


This is good news. Quite a few packages have gotten fixed now!
I whish I could provide patches myself, but am not much a coder.
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