-no-undefined broken for HEAD

[Zack Rusin]

On Tuesday 13 August 2002 05:49, Allan Sandfeld Jensen wrote:
> OTOH I am not sure exactly what you use this flag for, I just looked
> into it because it broke compilation with the Sun Workshop 6.4
> C-compiler. When adding the equivalent of '-zdefs' to g++
> ('-Wl,-no-undefined') while compiling libkdecore or libkdeui, linking
> broke in exactly the same way: The linker complained that the library
> depended on other shared libraries.

When compiling shared libraries on systems that support them, undefined 
symbols are allowed and left to be resolved by the runtime loader, 
--no-undefined passed to the linker disallows such undefined symbols. 
And we use it in Kopete because it sure as hell makes sense to detect 
those errors at compile time instead of letting one of the plugins 
crash at run-time. Of course forgetting to implement a function and 
blaming the linker is silly, but so is making libtool ignore one of its 
arguments. If authors put '-no-undefined' in Makefile.am in the LDFLAGS 
section, then they did have a good reason for it and ignoring it on all 
platforms because few were breaking with it is not a solution. 

Zack

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