--as-needed problem

[Matt Rogers]

On Tuesday 09 November 2004 06:52 am, Lubos Lunak wrote:
>  Hello,
>
>  there seems to be a problem with --enable-as-needed. I updated kdelibs,
> and I get the following error when building it:
>
> ./kdoctools/meinproc --srcdir=/home/llunak/build/src/kdelibs/kdoctools
> --check --cache ./doc/kspell/index.cache.bz2
> /home/llunak/build/src/kdelibs/doc/kspell/index.docbook
> /home/llunak/build/suse/kdelibs/kdoctools/.libs/lt-meinproc: symbol lookup
> error: /home/llunak/build/suse/kdelibs/kio/.libs/libkio.so.4: undefined
> symbol: _ZN9KIconView8takeItemEP13QIconViewItem
> Error creating ./doc/kspell/index.cache.bz2. Exit status 127.
>
>  That's a clean checkout and clean build, from today about 12:00 CET. Using
> --disable-as-needed with configure and relinking avoids the problem.
>
>  The undefined symbol above is from KIconView, i.e. libkdeui. Using ldd on
> lt-meinproc shows that e.g. libkio is used from builddir, but libkdeui is
> used from $KDEDIR/lib . Since it's been a couple of days since my last
> update, the installed libkdeui doesn't have the symbol yet.
>
>  Can somebody fix it please?

I also had the same problem. --as-needed seems to be more trouble than it's 
worth. ;)

Matt