Reducing excess linkage - cmake 2.6 IMPORTED targets and LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES for kdelibs

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Mon May 19 01:14:23 CEST 2008


On Saturday 10 May 2008, Sune Vuorela wrote:
> On Saturday 10 May 2008, you wrote:
> > > > , stuff which links with
> > > > KDE 4.0.x may not link anymore once this patch is applied
> > >
> > > thats the reason why the patch should be applied  to be able to
> > > optionally use this feature as soon as possible, so that those who care
> > > (I count debian and opensuse packagers here) can iron out all the
> > > quirks and fix all
> >
> > Would the official SUSE packages be built with this patch enabled or
> > disabled ?
>
> The official debian packages are built this way. Kubuntu seems quite
> interested in the debian work. So does Suse.
>
> > I don't feel able to support two different link styles for KDE 4.1.
>
> Luckily, you already got offers from debian (Modestas and me) and Dirk is
> talking about "having distributions fix it" - and he is one of the Suse
> people, so I think that is also a offer to help.

This means you will be here on kde-buildsystem and kde-core-devel and care for 
all emails which report linking problems, independent from which distribution 
they are using ?

Alex




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