Problems with path search order

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 28 March 2006 23:11, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Dimarts 28 Març 2006 23:04, David Faure va escriure:
> > On Tuesday 28 March 2006 21:36, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> > > Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > >That has worked for ages (since i began developing for KDE), is your
> > > >recommendation to make my (and lots of people more) life harder?
> > >
> > > No, easier. It happens all the time that someone gets a compilation
> > > error because an incompatible version of the KDE libraries was found in
> > > /usr/lib and brought in during linking or running one of our helper
> > > programs.
> > >
> > > I had it this weekend again. My build was complaining that it couldn't
> > > find a Mandriva-specific symbol inside libkio.so.4.
> >
> > Yep it was happening to me too, with the old buildsystem, whenever some
> > $(KDE_RPATH) was missing somewhere, or worse, when the order of "foo.la
> > $(LIB_BAR)" in LDADD was wrong... Too many hidden side effects there....
> > So Albert, if it worked for you, it's because others like me had fixed up
> > Makefile.ams for such issues before you got to compile them ;)
>
> Well, we all know you rule ;-)
>
> But that's what i mean, it can be fixed, because we have had it working in
> the past and asking people to remove their default KDE installation from
> /usr/lib is "too much" imho.
>
> BTW, now that cmake devels agreed my patch is correct could we get it
> commited?

Sure, I'll do so ASAP.

Bye
Alex
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