A little review of kdecore & kdeui

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Saturday 08 April 2006 10:00, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Saturday 08 April 2006 09:40, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Saturday 08 April 2006 09:36, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > On Thursday 06 April 2006 01:21, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > > >But I thought it wasn't possible to link a static lib into a shared
> > > > > lib?
> > > >
> > > > It isn't.
> > >
> > > What is the problem with that? Why can't we support that if we always
> > > compile static libraries PIC? (just as we did in KDE3 with libtool)
> > >
> > > Or is it the problem of --whole-archive?
> >
> > It is unportable and not longer required with cmake.
>
> We could indeed as David suggested install sources for classes that we
> don't want in shared libraries yet, classes for which we don't want to
> promise binary compatibility yet. But that is certainly not as convenient
> in usage in applications as linking against a library.
>
> What exactly is the problem with compilling them into a static library?
> What exactly do you think is unportable?

Although I'm currently something like the buildsystem guy, I don't feel like 
one ;-)
Well, everwhere where it's used there are big comments that it's unportable to 
link static libs into shared libs.
Usually only the symbols which are used are pulled in the shared lib, but for 
some/most/all (?) linkers exist some special flags which cause it to pull in 
the complete static lib.
I guess other developers know more details.

Bye
Alex
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