On Tuesday 23 August 2005 13:12, Anthony Ginepro wrote:
> Having recently switched to KDE 3.4.2, I'm really pleased about its
> functionnality and speed. I therefore intend to spend some time optimizing
> it as I've seen that FreeBSD doesn't support yet the visibility feature
> from gcc4.
>
> I already made qt3 work with vibility and would like to deal with kdelibs3
> now, however I would like to know if someone is working already on the
> issue.

Got it to build, or got it to run?

It's quite possible to build most of KDE with this turned on.  Many 
applications are, last I tried it, horribly broken though.  The problems 
includ kdeinit, kdesktop, most of the commandline apps, and the dcopserver 
(since it's pretty difficult to run anything with those broken, I can't even 
guess how bad the rest of the applications.)

> Let me know if it's a feature that could be supported in -ports or not.

Since it's just a configure switch, pretty easily.  It'll need to be shown 
working, reliable, not producing any additional bugs, and using a system 
compiler not a ports one (KDE is big enough already, and relies on other C++ 
libs, we can not inflict that on the users, at least not until GCC actually 
reiliably provides the ABI compabitility they keep promising.)

Let's say, although I'm a little sceptical that it will be a smooth ride, I 
think we'd be mostly very happy to see this working.

(Just don't get your hopes up too much, while there are speed increases to be 
had, they are not *that* big, and mostly involve application startup times, 
so don't expect your computer to feel like it got a major CPU injection over 
this!)

Regards,
-- 
Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://docs.kde.org
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org

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