[PATCH]: creating la files also for static libraries

[Thiago Macieira]

Ralf Habacker wrote:
>> I mean this: do I have to add the list of libraries used by the
>> libraries I use to the link line? For instance, suppose my program
>> uses A.dll and A links to B.dll (say, kernel32.dll). Do I have to make
>> my link line:
>>
>> 	gcc -o myprog myprog.o -lA -lB (-lkernel32 -ladvapi32 -l...)
>> ?
>>
>> However, we do have a problem with *direct* dependencies, at least
>> with the Solaris linker. The real usecase (bug 115058) is:
>>   my program uses symbols from libvorbis
>>   my program links to libvorbisenc
>>   libvorbisenc links to libvorbis
>
>Is libvorbisenc a static library ? If so, then there should the .dep
> file contains any platform inpendent form of dependencies. The question
> is what form.

No. We're talking strictly dynamic libraries.

You can summarise the error like this:

$ cat test.c
main()
{
  extern vorbis_file_init();
  vorbis_file_init();
}
Solaris$ gcc -o test test.c -lvorbisenc
test.c: undefined symbol 'vorbis_file_init' (implicit from dependency 
libvorbis.so.0)

Linux$ gcc -o test test.c -lvorbisenc
[compilation successful]

>> The consequence of this is that each and every program in KDE *must*
>> list all libraries from which it uses at least one symbol, including
>> Qt and kdecore.
>
>which is the prefered way under windows too, because the linker does not
> have such support.

I agree, but not every devel does. For instance, if the app uses kio, why 
should we list kdecore and kdeui and Qt as well?

I think that you should know what you use. And to help that, I suggested 
using namespaces, but my proposal wasn't accepted.

>The KIO module for example provides the kdesu and kdewalletclient
> library beside the main kio library, although for other reason as you
> stated.

This is completely different.
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