Bug#281955: kdepim: FTBFS uses too much space/time to build

[Daniel Schepler <schepler@math.berkeley.edu>]

Christopher L Cheney <ccheney@debian.org> writes:

> kdepim now that it uses cdbs and builds static libs takes roughly 3.5x
> as long to build and 10x the diskspace. This is too much diskspace in
> fact for it to even to build on s390 and if I did my math right will
> take somewhere over 200hr to build on m68k. It currently has been
> building on m68k since Nov 13 05:57:31, about 5.5 days ago.
>
> I am still looking into what all contributes to the massive increase in
> time/space, if you want to discuss this bug in realtime see me on irc.

I think probably the main issue is that --enable-final mode messes up
static libraries, so I needed to write a patch to disable that on
libraries when --enable-static was also passed.  (And previously, I
just didn't use --enable-final at all because of this.)  Also, the
plugins all get useless static versions built since libtool can't tell
when it's building a plugin as opposed to a library.

I don't see what I can really do about this.  Dropping the static
libraries entirely would be a policy violation, and compiling static
libraries which contain just one big .o file wouldn't be much better.
-- 
Daniel Schepler              "Please don't disillusion me.  I
schepler@math.berkeley.edu    haven't had breakfast yet."
                                 -- Orson Scott Card