making sure the right libraries are found

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Tue Apr 4 20:43:39 CEST 2006


Brad King wrote:
> Matt Rogers wrote:
> 
>>When attempting to build kdevelop with an older version of the installed 
>>library in the prefix, cmake/make/ld/whatever doesn't seem to pick up the 
>>right library to use. Rather than using the library I just built, it uses the 
>>previously installed one. Here's the output from make:
>>
>>Linking CXX executable kdevassistant
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>-L/home/kde/installs/trunk/lib -L/home/kde/trunk/build/KDE/kdevelop/lib -L/home/qt/4.1/lib -L/usr/local/lib -L/lib
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>-Wl,-rpath,/home/kde/installs/trunk/lib:/home/kde/trunk/build/KDE/kdevelop/lib:/home/qt/4.1/lib:/usr/local/lib:/lib
> 
> [snip]
> 
>>How do I get this fixed?
> 
> 
> Clearly the link directories are listed in the wrong order.  This is 
> likely a CMake issue which I'll investigate.  It is supposed to 
> automatically compute a safe order but there is a bug in that it doesn't 
> take into account libraries that will be present after the project 
> builds.  I don't know why no one has encountered this before.

This is now fixed in CVS CMake.

-Brad


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