[Interest] "When its ready"

[marius.storm-olsen at nokia.com]

On 16/12/2011 06:02, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> On Friday, 16 de December de 2011 08.47.24, Yves Bailly wrote:
>> Le 15/12/2011 17:11, Thiago Macieira a écrit :
>>> On Thursday, 15 de December de 2011 15.36.24, Yves Bailly wrote:
>>>>> There is a Jira item related to this
>>>>> https://bugreports.qt.nokia.com/browse/QTBUG-20556. The
>>>>> configure succeeds if you leave -ltcg out.
>>>>
>>>> Indeed it works (compiling examples and demos right now).
>>>> That's a bit unfortunate though.
>>>
>>> WebKit is too big for the link-time compiler's mind. No way out.
>>
>> Maybe split it in two or more "sub-libraries"?
>
> It's already split into multiple convenience sub-libraries. But the
> LTCG compiles them all into a DLL at the final link time and that is
> too big.
>
> The only possibility to fix this would be to break into multiple
> DLLs. I am completely opposed to that, as I expect the load time
> related to so many symbols and relocations to be higher.

Probably not by much, and it could be platform specific. However, that 
would make the already quite complex build system of QtWebKit even more 
complex, which is frightening :)

I would recommend simply forcing off the LTCG flag for WebKit, even if 
Qt is configured with it. That would be a patch for the WebKit guys. Any 
takers?