From kde-devel Sat Jul 28 10:11:18 2001 From: Rob Kaper Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2001 10:11:18 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Faster startups by fixing C++ object files before linking (new version and results) X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=99631514211805 On Fri, Jul 27, 2001 at 08:21:23PM -0400, Andreas Pour wrote: > While I think too this is a great innovation, is it really appropriate to > release this w/out a beta test in a stable release? Who knows what > different combinations of binutils/linkers/loaders/compilers will do. Already told Leon about this, objprelink doesn't even compile on Slackware 8.0, so it's probably not a good idea to put this in by default. > It might cause rather severe problems, making KDE unusable. Some of these > problems could be avoided if there was a "configure" switch labelled > "experimental" to enable this, and then the distros can at least verify > that it works on their particular systems when building the packages. 100% agreement. It's nonsense to change such an important piece the weekend before the branching. Rob -- Rob Kaper | 'I hate it when the villain quotes Shakespeare' cap@capsi.com | -- John Crichton, "Farscape" www.capsi.com | >> Visit http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-devel#unsub to unsubscribe <<