[sldev] Re: shared objects output during standalone build (Was: releasefordownload - linux)

Bryan O'Sullivan bos at lindenlab.com
Mon Jul 16 10:57:51 PDT 2007


Paul TBBle Hampson wrote:

> I see Sardonyx Linden has marked this as fixed internally. What was the
> fix?

We switched to compiling the files that need to go into libllimage.so 
with -fpic, but generating "ar" archives with them (as we had been doing 
before) instead of shared objects.

> I'm hoping it wasn't unsharing the shared objects, because I'm pretty
> sure building those as shared objects cut my build time by about an hour
> (from three to two), unless someone else can suggest a different 1.17 to
> 1.18 change that would cause that?

I can't suggest what might have changed this, but I'm skeptical that it 
could have had anything to do with a change of library type.

> which I'm guessing is the result of inlining, so unless there's some kind
> of performance penalty for using shared libraries, I'm all for this
> state of affairs continuing and even encompassing more. I believe there
> was a Jira issue around for .soing more of the client...

I'm afraid that doesn't make any sense.  Using shared objects increases 
viewer startup time and makes packaging more of a pain.

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