On MacOSX, added -prebind option to link phase for executable (and
framework, if applicable). This speeds up startup time by up to 50%.
diff --git a/configure b/configure
index 39c9892..df432d8 100755
--- a/configure
+++ b/configure
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
#! /bin/sh
-# From configure.in Revision: 1.384 .
+# From configure.in Revision: 1.385 .
# Guess values for system-dependent variables and create Makefiles.
# Generated by GNU Autoconf 2.53 for python 2.3.
#
@@ -9443,7 +9443,11 @@
# -u _PyMac_Error is needed to pull in the mac toolbox glue, which is
# not used by the core itself but which needs to be in the core so
# that dynamically loaded extension modules have access to it.
- LINKFORSHARED="$extra_undefs -framework System"
+ # -prebind causes the executable to assume dynamic libraries are at their
+ # preferred address, which speeds up startup. We specify it here
+ # in stead of in LDFLAGS because it does not seem to work for bundle
+ # plugins (as of OSX 10.2).
+ LINKFORSHARED="$extra_undefs -framework System -prebind"
if test "$enable_framework"
then
LINKFORSHARED="$LINKFORSHARED -framework Python"