[gnutls-devel] Automatic library initialization

[Tim Ruehsen]

Hi,

an executable, dynamically linked with GnuTLS, automatically calls 
gnutls_global_init(). And thus (in my case) eats up 60x more CPU cycles than 
needed.
The executable only needs GnuTLS under some conditions (TLS connection 
requested). In this case it 'manually' calls gnutls_global_init().

Is there a ./configure option (or similar) that the packagers should/could use 
to avoid that automatic initialization ? Or anything I can do when 
compiling/linking the executable ?

I would like to understand, what is going on here.
I am on Debian SID amd64, GnuTLS version 3.3.18-1.

Best Regards,

	Tim Rühsen