Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> On Friday 05 May 2006 12:42, Farhan Ahmed wrote:
> > Hemmann, Volker Armin wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 08:18, Farhan Ahmed wrote:
> > > > CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} -fvisibility-inlines-hidden"
> > >
> > > no, just no. This breaks enough stuff. Do not tell others to use it. If
> > > you want to use it. Fine. But do not tell anybody else to do it.
> >
> > According to http://gentoo-wiki.com/CFLAGS_matrix
> > -fvisibility-inlines-hidden is recommended especially for KDE users..
> > Atleast while KDE it does not effect and is indeed recommended..
>
> and if I remember right, there was some KDE breakage with this flag. No?
>
> gentoo-wiki is not an official gentoo project ;)
> And a wiki can be edited by everybody.
>
>
> http://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?bug_status=UNCONFIRMED&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=RESOLVED&bug_status=VERIFIED&bug_status=CLOSED&field0-0-0=product&type0-0-0=substring&value0-0-0=fvisibility-inlines-hidden&field0-0-1=component&type0-0-1=substring&value0-0-1=fvisibility-inlines-hidden&field0-0-2=short_desc&type0-0-2=substring&value0-0-2=fvisibility-inlines-hidden&field0-0-3=status_whiteboard&type0-0-3=substring&value0-0-3=fvisibility-inlines-hiddenThanks for the pointer.. I take my word back about -fvisibility-inlines-hidden being a safe option for KDE. > > > > > > > > MAKEOPTS="" > > > > > > > > MAKEOPTS="-j2" > > > > > > -j1 is a good one for singlecore/single cpu computer, where the compiling > > > is running in the background. > > > > No for singlecore/single cpu computer, -j2 is recommended.. Read > > MAKEOPTS section in: > > really? with -j2 my box crawls when compiling, sometimes even oom. With -j1 I > can use it, as if nothing happens and I don't get oom. Plus - it is not > slower. > I have read the sections, I suffered from -j2 and I stopped using it. All > better now. > Btw, since switching between tasks and threads is something CPUs really hate, > I can't even imagine how increasing the amount of needed switches should > help. > Al least Gentoo Handbook is a official Gentoo project and they recommend it.. :) > > > > Also if you wish add these lines to /etc/make.conf > > > > > > > > LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1,-z,now,--sort-common" > > > > > > are you totally sure, that this do not break something? do this flags > > > bring anything, that can not be archived with prelink? > > > > > > Again, you might want to use them, but you should not tell somebody else > > > to use them.- > > > > Honestly I think I was wrong in recommending this.. But during the > > emerge process of some packages there's a suggestion to use at least a > > part of the LDFLAGS quoted above.. It's like a security warning.. I > > decided to use these flags after reading a lot about them in Gentoo > > forms > > yes, but everything in the forums should be taken with a grain of salt - a > lot > of ricers are there. It is safer to look into bugs.gentoo.org ;) It's true but after doing a bit of research I think they are stable enough to use.. I don't use all the fancy stuff they post in forums.. > (snip) Farhan Ahmed -- Place : Bangalore, Karnataka, India GPG Key : 8BE90E98 WengoPhone ID : farhanahmed IRC Nick : farhanahmed / farhanahmed06 (irc.freenode.net)
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