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From: Paul de Vrieze <gentoo-user@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] kde & enable-final
Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2002 14:46:53
Message-Id: 200211241545.47607.gentoo-user@devrieze.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] kde & enable-final by Hannes Mehnert
1 On Friday 22 November 2002 21:24, Hannes Mehnert wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > kde currently compiles with --enable-final, which puts all source code
5 > in one big file and then compile this big file.
6 >
7 > This has the advantage, that, if you have a lot memory, compiling is faster
8 > (not really much, maybe 2-5%).
9 >
10 > The disadvantage is that you may have some strange bugs which can't be
11 > easily traced down.
12 >
13 > We came to the conclusion that it will be better to disable this by
14 > default, because we don't see any real advantage of having this enabled by
15 > default.
16 >
17 > Maybe we have overlooked anything, or there are lots of users which want to
18 > have this enabled by default. There will be always the option to enable
19 > this configure flag, export myconf="${myconf} --enable-final" will do the
20 > trick.
21 >
22
23 Not that I want to use this feature, but what about a USE flag?
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25 Paul
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