KDELibsDependencies.cmake problem (Re: KDE/kdebase/runtime/kioslave/smtp)

[Dirk Mueller]

On Tuesday, 17. October 2006 15:32, David Faure wrote:

> But the practical problem is that on Linux it all links just fine via
> kdecore, so the developers will never remember to add such explicit links,
> since it "works for them" (tm). So the guys doing Mac OS (and maybe
> Windows) porting will keep having to fix up CMakeLists to add explicit
> linking afterwards - which breaks the idea of a cross-platform build system
> IMHO; we should ensure that when it works somewhere it works everywhere as
> much as possible.

Well, then we need to port -Wl,--as-needed over to CMake. it would also help 
in general, therefore being a good thing. 

the problem is only visible because kdecore doesn't use QtNetwork. That is 
probably going to change over time, so the issue goes away. 


Dirk