Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Some panicing, spent a while getting an ooo-build-2.0.0 release together to sync with the impending up-stream release. Looking pretty good, fixed a number of issues on Win32 with David Fraser - got a working build there eventually.
Tried to experience the joy of the (in)Competancy Management Tool, and the Objectives Somethingorother, but the innerweb was broken - the irony of it all.
Did the ooo-build-2.0.0 release; an exciting time I suppose; at least for those that didn't ship it 6+ months ago. Fixed an nsplugin bug introduced in error - horrified by the nsplugin code quality, and the UI/integration - [a concrete proof that the specification process adds ~nothing over a few guidelines and some code review]:
```
NSP_Sleep(5);
    // try to connect to background SO, thus judge if it is ready
    while(0 > connect(my_sock, (struct sockaddr *)&dst_addr, sizeof(dst_addr)))
...
    NSP_CloseSocket(my_sock);
    NSP_Sleep(5);
```
etc.
Amazed that in ld - fprintf (stderr - has a rather curious behavior:
```
fprintf (stderr, "Is '%s' %c%c%c vague (%d)\n",
	   symbol, symbol[0], symbol[1], symbol[2], ret);
```
outputs:
```
Is 'typeinfo for BaseClass' _ZT vague (1)
```
etc. More interestingly, after pre-processing it's still calling 'fprintf'; deep magic.
Re-linked OO.o with -Bdirect - still works; a good sign. Poked at OOoStartup again, got sucked into a writer nightmare with outline numbering, something in there is contending for the worlds-worst-usability nightmare prize.

Gingerly manipulated my system libc from the safety of a chroot jail; apparently (LD_LIBRARY_PATH mangling from a different prefix aside) it works really well; OO.o runs without (noticable) issues. Still pretty slow for vague linkage bits; with export LD_DEBUG=bindings:symbols:direct we get:

The bad old world (& C++ vague-linkage bits)

      8375:     dynamic symbol index 602 from 'libbasegfx680li.so' for _ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE
      8375:     dynamic symbol offset 65534
      8375:     vague symbol
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=./soffice.bin
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=./libvcl680li.so
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=./libsvl680li.so
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=./libsvt680li.so
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=./libutl680li.so
      ... omit 10 other OO.o libs ...
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/usr/X11R6/lib/libSM.so.6
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/usr/X11R6/lib/libICE.so.6
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/opt/gcc/lib/libdl.so.2
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/opt/gcc/lib/libpthread.so.0
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=./libstlport_gcc.so
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/opt/gcc/lib/libm.so.6
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/opt/gcc/lib/libc.so.6
      ... omit 5 other OO.o / system libs ...
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/lib/libz.so.1
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=/usr/lib/libjpeg.so.62
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=./libjvmfwk.so.3
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=./libuno_salhelpergcc3.so.3
      8375:     symbol=_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE;  lookup in file=./libbasegfx680li.so
      8375:     binding file ./libbasegfx680li.so to ./libbasegfx680li.so: normal symbol `_ZTIN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterE'

Direct linkage in action:

      8375:     dynamic symbol index 525 from './libbasegfx680li.so' for _ZN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterD1Ev
      8375:     dynamic symbol offset 0
      8375:     symbol=_ZN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterD1Ev;  lookup in file=./libbasegfx680li.so
      8375:     direct lookup ...
      8375:     binding file ./libbasegfx680li.so to ./libbasegfx680li.so: normal symbol `_ZN7basegfx29B2DPolyPolygonRasterConverterD1Ev'

ie. 1 lookup instead of 30 (and this is early in the OO.o startup process, before many libs are loaded). Still poking at a few issues though; switched the system back; need to re-build glibc with make install_root=/foo install

Up repeatedly in the night with N. eventually setup the cot downstairs to get some peace.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2005-10-20: Thursday

The bad old world (& C++ vague-linkage bits)

Direct linkage in action: