Convenience Libraries (was RFC: KHTML "modular" build)

[Brad King]

Matt Broadstone wrote:
> Hi, I submitted a patch to kfm-devel to convert khtml to use
> libtool-esque convenience libraries yesterday, and wanted to move the
> discussion over here as it seems more appropriate. Attached is the
> patch to convert khtml to the convenience libraries, it would be much
> appreciated if people could test this on other platforms (I only have
> linux to test on here..) to see if we can get convenience libraries
> working with cmake. Thanks!

Please explain exactly how convenience libs work on Windows for MSVC,
MinGW, and perhaps Borland.

Thanks,
-Brad