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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: What exactly does --enable-final?
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-03-02 1:22:29
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David Faure wrote:
> 
> On Thursday 01 March 2001 23:16, Michael Reiher wrote:
> > Well, see subject...
> 
> I have written this doc some time ago, but still don't know where to
> commit it ;-)

Well, if you could add a few paragraphs that cover --enable-debug
and the other important developer related config options it would
make an excellent tutorial for the dot series!

Rich.

> 
> --enable-final concatenates all .cpp files into one big .all_cpp.cpp file,
> and compiles it in one go, instead of compiling each .cpp file on its own.
> This makes the whole compilation much faster, and often leads to better
> optimised code, but it also requires much more memory. And if often
> results in compilation errors when headers included by different source
> files clash one with the other, or when using c static functions with
> the same name in different source files.
> This is a good thing to do at packaging time, but of course not
> for developers, since a change in one file means recompiling everything.
> 
> --
> David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
> http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/
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