[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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