Konqueror depends on Kate

[Stephan Kulow]

Am Thursday 06 March 2003 01:00 schrieb Dawit A.:
> On Wednesday 05 March 2003 18:51, George Staikos wrote:
> > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 13:41, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:54:51PM -0500, George Staikos wrote:
> > > >    Is there really a good reason why konqueror now depends on kate?  I
> > > > don't think this is reasonable.  However KMultiTabBar apparently is
> > > > inside kate and depended on by konqueror.
> > >
> > > It's a build time dependency only (due to static linkage). Why is it
> > > a problem?
> >
> >   Oh well that's good.  Still, it makes me build kate when I don't
> > want/need it.
> 
> It means that you cannot compile one application independent of another when 
> you need to.  For example, while I was working on a bug in Konqueror a few 
> days ago it was unable to build it because of a change in this widget that 
> broke the static linkage. I had no idea where to look for this. My first 
> inclination was to check kdelibs, but I did not find it there.  It is sheer 
> luck/laziness that forced me to search kdebase and find this dependency on 
> kate/lib! The last thing I would want to do when attempting to fix bugs in 
> Konqueror is compile the entire kdebase package along with the sometimes 
> necessary recompile of kdelibs and libkonq.  It would have taken several 
> hours on my machine :(
> 
Use unsermake and type "make konqueror/konqueror" :)

Greetings, Stephan