Qt static libraries - pkgconfig again

[Leo Savernik]

Am Samstag, 24. Februar 2007 schrieb Thiago Macieira:
> Peter Kümmel wrote:
> >>> Can't we get around this problem by convincing the trolls to not make
> >>> it a static lib?
> >>
> >> I doubt that. QtUiTools is a very small library whose purpose is to
> >> load designer-generated .ui files.
> >
> >This sounds like that it's easier to patch Qt than to introduce
> > pkg-config on windows, or I'm wrong?
>
> Yes, it's easier to patch it. But that doesn't mean the Trolls will accept
> it.
>
> Thay made it specifically static for a reason. I just don't know what
> reason that is. And I kind of doubt that the reason is gone.

What's all the fuss about that? Isn't QtUiTools located in the same directory 
as the shared objects such that it will be found by the -L<path> options? 
Wouldn't therefore a simple -lQtUiTools suffice for every link target in need 
of this? Or is this the solution you mean by "patching Qt"?

mfg
	Leo