library dependency implementation

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Tue Oct 25 18:30:08 CEST 2005


On Tuesday 25 October 2005 18:12, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
> Ralf Habacker said the following, On 2005-10-25 18:01:
...
> > This relates to the whole-archive linker option, which is required to
> > include static libraries into a shared library using gcc/ld. To use this
> > option the absolute path of the static library is required and could be
> > retrieved from the relating la file.
>
> BTW, I guess you didn't mean cases like kde-ice, and kde3support? These are
> compiled in one go without static-libraries hack. What cases do you have in
> mind then?

There are several places in KDE where libtool convenience libraries are used, 
in kdelibs and also in other modules. Different platforms require different 
options to get the desired behaviour. Does MSVC actually support this type of 
libraries ?
How does scons currently handle them ?

Bye
Alex
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