Improving program startup with fastbind [HP-UX Linker] White paper

Figure 4: Sample run of prebind

The prebind step can be incorporated in the install scripts of software products by vendors, with their

knowledge of executable paths and shared library search paths needed.

#prebind called without any executables

# prebind

#prebind with executables mentioned in the command line

# prebind /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin

prebind: fastbind error:

fastbind: Unable to find library 'libmozjs.sl'.

# LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/mozilla prebind /opt/mozilla/mozilla-bin

# cat prebind.conf

/usr/ccs/bin/rehash

/usr/local/bin/vim

#prebind command used to preview the undo mode with executable path

supplied in a file

# ./prebind -u -p -f prebind.conf

(swlist command) /usr/sbin/swlist -l file | /usr/bin/egrep -w

'\/usr\/ccs\/bin\/rehash|\/usr\/local\/bin\/vim'

prebind: running swlist (this may take a few minutes) ...

(swlist output) /usr/ccs/bin/rehash : rehash.rehash

(swlist output) /usr/local/bin/vim : vim.vim-RUN

/usr/ccs/bin/fastbind -n /usr/ccs/bin/rehash

/usr/sbin/swmodify -x files=/usr/ccs/bin/rehash rehash.rehash

/usr/ccs/bin/fastbind -n /usr/local/bin/vim

/usr/sbin/swmodify -x files=/usr/local/bin/vim vim.vim-RUN