sjlj CFG improvement

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Marc Espie wrote:
> 
> Consider that AGAIN. Those sjlj problems are making it almost impossible
> to build a few pieces of software on sjlj machines.
> 
> This is really a critical issue. It makes a HUGE size difference 
> on some very important programs, like qt2 or kde2.

We disable exceptions in the default compilation mode of KDE 2 (except
some parts of khtml). (Also qt2 can be compiled with an option to disable,
but as it's a basic library I wouldn't recommend it).

> some qt2 files require 250Mb to compile under -O2. Some kde2 files don't 
> compile AT ALL. I've had the box I'm running on go all the way up to 
> 400Mb of virtual memory space before giving up, after over an hour 
> of compilation. 

Just out of curiosity: which file of KDE 2?


Ciao,
Michael.