-lgeneral

[Allen Winter]

On Saturday 09 February 2008 11:12:52 Brad King wrote:
> Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Saturday 09 February 2008 10:14:13 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >> On 09.02.08 10:01:54, Allen Winter wrote:
> >>> With a fresh kdepim and CMake 2.4.8 I get -lgeneral added to all link
> >>> lines. Of course, there is no such library and the build fails.  I know
> >>> others have had similar issues, although I don't know what CMake
> >>> version they were using.
> >>>
> >>> I then installed CMake from today's cvs and kdepim built fine.
> >>>
> >>> So... is there a bug in CMake 2.4.8?
> >>
> >> According to Brad this happens only if you mix CMake versions, i.e.
> >> generate a builddir with 2.4 and later use 2.6 on it or some such.
> >
> > That would make sense.. almost.. I did build with CMake cvs the other
> > day, and then changed to CMake 2.4.8 this morning.
> >
> > However, I removed the entire build dir and still saw the same problem.
> >
> > Could there be another file hanging around outside the builddir
> > that might cause problems?
>
> The problem is that CVS CMake's export_library_dependencies command
> includes a "general" keyword in the generated file that CMake 2.4 does
> not understand.  If kdelibs was built with CVS CMake then when other
> projects are built against it with 2.4 this error occurs.  This is on my
> todo list of things to correct before the 2.6 release.
>
Aha!  yep, kdelibs was built with CVS CMake.

Thanks for the explanation.
-Allen