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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Faster startups by fixing C++ object files before linking (new version and results)
From:       Rob Kaper <cap () capsi ! com>
Date:       2001-07-28 10:11:18
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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
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