From kde-devel  Thu Jul 11 21:17:52 2002
From: Leon Bottou <leon () bottou ! org>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 21:17:52 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Time to remove --enable-objprelink ?
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Hetz Ben Hamo wrote:
> Unless you include the latest glibc, bin utils snapshots - how developers
> will compile KDE with the optimizations? putting multiple glibc and
> binutils on a Linux system is not recommend for every developers - you need
> to do some LD_PRELOAD_PATH and PATH games to make it compile with the new
> glibc & binutils or else it would compile with the old ones...

Neil Stevens wrote:
> I don't see the point in removing something that does work for the people 
> who use it now.  If objprelink doesn't get updated to newer compilers and 
> linkers, so what?  Anyone who's upgrading compilers and linkers can 
> upgrade to a version that has other speedups.  However, people who aren't 
> upgrading everything all the time still need objprelink.

The latest version of objprelink does not need this 
configuration option anyway (see http://objprelink.sf.net ).
See http://objprelink.sourceforge.net.

- Leon


 
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