[Kde-nonlinux] Interesting in getting KDE to compile with Forte?

[Garrett Conaty]

Greetings,

I'm working on deploying KDE (2.2.2 or 3.0) on Solaris for use with the 
OpenPKG distribution.  I've built KDE successfully using GCC 3.0.3 but always 
get various errors when using the Sun Forte compiler.  (6.2 update 2 and 7.0 
EA 2).  By point of comparison most other packages including Qt compile fine.

I get the impression that the only compiler set which works with KDE is GCC 
which is understandable, but I think that the Forte compiler may be able to 
better optimize KDE for use on Solaris.  So my question is this:

Is there any interest in so doing?  I'm reluctant to do it just to do it, but 
if there were a noticeable performance increase I think it would be well 
worth it.  Could any of the KDE gurus lend a hand?  I've got the ability to 
debug the build process and fix things that are breaking, but I've not worked 
on the guts of KDE and hence would have to overcome the learning curve to 
become familiar with the code/design philosophy.

Thanks,
Garrett Conaty