pkg-kde-tools build type debian

[Harald Sitter]

On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 7:52 AM, Sune Vuorela <sune at vuorela.dk> wrote:
> On Wednesday 13 May 2015 00:30:19 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
>> On Tuesday 12 May 2015 23:25:18 Sune Vuorela wrote:
>> > On Tuesday 12 May 2015 13:04:42 Lisandro Damián Nicanor Pérez Meyer wrote:
>> > > * -O2 is removed to let dpkg-buildflags use whatever we decide in Debian
>> > > should be used.
>> >
>> > I'm pretty sure this is the reason both for -O2 and for -g.

As I pointed out RelWithDebInfo is not actually the best fit anyway
because of the -g. So, my original proposal here was rubbish really.

What we'd want is 'Release' which is adding -O3 for kf5/ecm.
Personally I do not see the advantage in not having it build with
optimization. From what I understand the primary effect of not passing
-O3 is gcc defaulting to -O0 which is apparently compiling faster at
the expense of slower execution time (as in: not as fast execution as
if it had been compiled with O3). Considering any given binary is
executed many times more than it is built that seems like a
disadvantage to me.

>> Then the Debian build mode should be kept.
>
> I'm pretty sure KDE doesn't do build modes any longer, so it is completely up
> to cmake.

Indeed. ECM from what I can see only *adds* flags useful for KDE
software to what cmake picked for the BUILD_TYPE specified by the
user. Stuff like default hiding of symbols and LARGEFILE64.

The BULD_TYPE flags we currently get in kf5 builds is coming from
/usr/share/cmake-3.0/Modules/Compiler/GNU.cmake. IMO this coming
directly from cmake is one more reason to not diverge unless we have a
really good reason to do so, otherwise one could just as well argue
changing the Release flags in the cmake package to not have -O3.


HS