debug libs (Re: KDE/kdelibs/cmake/modules)

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 28 February 2006 19:37, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 February 2006 19:23, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > SVN commit 514550 by neundorf:
> >
> > -set CMAKE_DEBUG_POSTFIX to "_debug", this has the effect that when doing
> > a debug build e.g. kdecore will be named "libkdecore_debug.so"
>
> Hmm. Hmm. Do we really want that, on unix?

Well, I don't know. I thought it would be a good idea since Qt does it this 
way.

> I can't understand why Qt4 went that route, but IMHO not being able to
> replace release libs by debug libs (without relinking all kde apps) is a
> real problem.
>
> Imagine: kword crashes in KActionMenu; if my kdelibs wasn't compiled with
> debug I would reconfigure it with debug and recompile it. But this doesn't
> help since kword is still linking to kdecore instead of kdecore_debug, so
> now I need to recompile koffice as well?

Well, let's say you have both libkdecore.so and libkdecore_debug.so available 
when compiling koffice.
If you are doing a debug build of koffice it will link to libkdecore_debug.so, 
if you are doing a release build it will link to libkdecore.so.
( i.e. this is what I intended to do, we can do it also differently).
Problem here: kdelibs cannot be compiled in both versions at once with 
makefiles, it might be possible with XCode and Visual Studio.
In cmake this would look like this:

target_link_libraries(kword optimized kdecore debug kdecore_debug)
or better:
target_link_libraries(kword ${KDE4_KDECORE_LIBRARIES})

So, if you think having different names for the release/debug version is ok, 
I'll leave it as it is now, if you think it is better to use the same name 
for both, it's also ok with me.

Bye
Alex
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