Bug#328157: libqt3-mt: Qt's Q_EXPORT macro does not support gcc's -fvisibility
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=101542 is closed. What exact issues
still remain for the 3.4 branch? Note that this is important for KDE,
since it solves more or less the slow application start up performance.
Better to have as much testing now and have a possibility to revert than
the other way around IMHO (unless you own Intel shares of course :-)).
Other than that, it's also for users own compilings that can't use
visiblity w/o that patch. Eg. I've some debian pkgs for KMPlayer on my
site for SID as well, and those unfortunately suffers from slower startup
due to this bug in Qt and I know that there is no problem with
-fvisibility=hidden. You could also fix Qt and comment out the checks
in the KDE admin dirs (like kubuntu does IIRC), though I don't recommend
it.
Regards,
Koos Vriezen
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