patch: c/cxxflags for static libraries

Simon Hausmann hausmann at kde.org
Mon Jul 17 18:33:21 CEST 2006


On Monday 17 July 2006 18:02, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Monday 17 July 2006 00:12, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > On Sunday 16. July 2006 20:31, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > [...]
> >
> > > If you add a .o that happens to be in an ar archive into a shared
> > > library, you've got a convenience library, not a static library. In
> > > those cases, just link the .o once and for all. There's no need to
> > > create the archive.
> >
> > Yes, but as long as the build system offers this feature people will use
> > it. So I suggest that we either drop the feature alltogether or we use
> > -fPIC there as well. But offering it as feature that only works on i386
> > when linked into a final shared object is not a good idea IMHO.
>
> Building convenience libs is not supported out-of-the-box by cmake.
> What should we drop ?

Well, STATIC seems to work out of the box as keyword for kde4_add_library.


Simon
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