Pavel Heimlich wrote:
> Hi,
> what is your feeling about us using undocumented Sun Studio flags to build 
> KDE and/or its dependencies?
> 
> We use things like '-Wu,-no_a2lf', '-Wu,-gnu_compat=1', '-Wu,-gasm=1', 
> mentioned only in perhaps one obscure SS devs blog and a solaris mailing list.
> I guess they were introduced to alleviate some build bugs which perhaps are 
> not present anymore with SS12U1.
> 
> IMHO we should avoid them and only use them where necessary (and file a bug 
> against SS for such cases), not globally.
> I am open to arguments though, I may be missing something.

The thing about undocumented flags is that if they break, you get to 
keep both pieces :)

So I would only use them if you absolutely must.

Cheers,
-- 
Shawn Walker

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