[CCing debian-kde so people are aware of this issue's status] On October 22, 2005 10:47, Yves Glodt wrote: > When KDE 3.5 will land in sid, will it this time be compiled with > hidden symbols (-fvisibility), or is it still considered unstable?
Unfortunately, -fvisibility is still too buggy. The main issues are: http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19664 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19520 http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20297 Once these are fixed, and a compiler with those fixes is deployed in Debian, then we can take a closer look at enabling -fvisibility. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem likely before GCC 4.1, and even that might not have all the fixes we need. The few distros that currently enable -fvisibility are patching GCC themselves, and Debian doesn't usually carry major third-party patches for this sort of issue in a key component (patches like that are often rather dodgy, not to mention hard to support). We'd all very much like to enable this feature, rest assured - but not before it's truly ready. Cheers, Christopher Martin
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