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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Faster startups by fixing C++ object files before linking (new version and results)
From:       Lauri Watts <lauri () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-07-28 0:51:13
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On Saturday 28 July 2001 02:21, Andreas Pour wrote:
> Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> > On Samstag, 28. Juli 2001 01:07 Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > > I think we should seriously consider to use this for KDE 2.2 by
> > > integrating it into the build system. I had one report though that it
> > > failed with
> >
> > Yes, I fully support this. It's a great improvement for me at least :)
>
> Hi,
>
> 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.
> 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.

Or, put it in place for 2.2.1, and that gives us a month or so of testing (if 
anyone but the docs and translators will be testing in 2.2.1 that is!)

-- 
Lauri Watts

 
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