patch: c/cxxflags for static libraries

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 17 July 2006 18:33, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> 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.

Ah, yes.
Do you think we should disable static libs for KDE4_ADD_LIBRARY() ?
I mean, it's prefectly ok to build a static lib as long as you don't link it 
into a shared library.

Bye
Alex
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