From kde-devel  Thu Oct 18 22:32:58 2001
From: aleXXX <alexander.neundorf () gmx ! net>
Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2001 22:32:58 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: compiler error
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On Thu 18 Oct 01 05:42, Neil Stevens wrote:
> On Wednesday October 17, 2001 07:34, Dirk Mueller wrote:
> > On Mit, 17 Okt 2001, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > > KDE compiled with gcc 2.91.66?  That really surprises me.
> >
> > Why? It is supposed to.
>
> Well, try a google search for KDE egcs and your first result is
>
> http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.2.html
>
> With the relevant lines being
>
> "Compiler Requirements. Please note that some components of KDE 2.2 will
> not compile with older versions of gcc/egcs, such as egcs-1.1.2 or
> gcc-2.7.2. At a minimum gcc-2.95-* is required. In addition, some
> components of KDE 2.2 (such as the multimedia backbone of KDE, aRts) will
> not compile with gcc 3.0 (the problems are being corrected by the KDE and
> GCC teams). "
>
> Personally, even if KDE does manage to compile with that old thing, I
> think it should be discouraged simply because the performance of
> components like khtml gets hurt noticeably.

Well, gcc 2.7.x can't compile KDE 2.
egcs 2.91.66 works perfectly here (except the one file in koffice/kchart or 
where it was).
What performance problems are there with egcs 2.91.66 ?

Bye
Alex

 
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