[gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: KDE 3.4 visibility support disabled

[Dan Armak <danarmak@gentoo.org>]

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On Thursday 26 May 2005 02:37, Duncan wrote:
> Marcus D. Hanwell posted <200505251748.27667.cryos@gentoo.org>, excerpted
>
> below,  on Wed, 25 May 2005 17:48:20 +0100:
> > I have just committed a fix to kde.eclass and kde-meta.eclass that
> > disables visibility support in KDE 3.4 (thanks to FlameEyes for the
> > patches). This was a new feature in KDE 3.4 which has caused at least one
> > obvious bug, and possibly others that are less obvious[1].
>
> [note the cross-posting]
>
> That isn't going to kill it for gcc-4.0.1-snapshots, right, only gcc-3.4?
> I'll be rather unhappy if the speed increases I've been attributing to
> that visibility support under gcc4, disappear! =8^(

That's going to kill it everywhere, gcc4 included. The way KDE uses hidden 
visibility is itself broken - not gcc. Until that's fixed, we're disabling 
visibility support in kde. (There was a separate bug in gcc itself which got 
fixed, which may have confused some people...)

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