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Strato

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Wednesday, November 26th 2003, 10:55am

what is --enable-final

Hi,

what is this flag, fond on many ./configure scripts for KDE applications?

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Wednesday, November 26th 2003, 7:09pm

I think it concatenates all source files from one directory into one huge file and compiles it instead of every file separately.

I think it results in shorter compile time because it does not have to resolve recurring include statements every time.

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Wednesday, November 26th 2003, 9:33pm

$ ./configure --help
[...]
--enable-final build size optimized apps (experimental - needs lots of memory)

The program will be optimized for your CPU. For more information, have a closer look on "man gcc" or http://www.gnu.org/software/gcc/gcc.html.
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Thursday, November 27th 2003, 6:44am

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$ ./configure --help
[...]
--enable-final build size optimized apps (experimental - needs lots of memory)

The program will be optimized for your CPU.

No. Those two are different things. CPU optimizations are
separate sitches, like -march=athlon-xp for example.

--enable-final optimizes in the way anda_skoa described.
The result is lower compile time and smaller binary size.
As this option sometimes produces compilation errors it is
recommended to try without it as soon as you notice that your
KDE source code doesn't compile.