Disabling -fvisibility for kdewidgets and styles

[Unai Garro]

One more problem I found while building kdm's kfrontend in kdebase, is
that it requires to have 'kde_have_kipc' symbol exported in
kdelibs/kapplication. I just added the defautl attribute, so it was
exported, and it built fine.


On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 00:35 +0100, Unai Garro wrote:
> Hi Dirk,
> 
> After so much mess trying to fix the kde build I found what the problem
> was. It seems kdelibs/kdewidgets and styles are built with
> -fvisibility=hidden, and that breaks the plugin loading by Qt. Due to
> that kdebase won't build either, since the configure script won't find
> the kdewidget plugins for uic.
> 
> I disabled the flag for kdewidget just adding -fvisibility=default, and
> now my kdebase seems to be building just fine. I could not do this by
> any other means than hacking into the generated Makefile.
> 
> 
> Could this be made the default behaviour for Qt plugins like widgets and
> styles?
> 
> I'm not sure if this is the normal behaviour in other compilers, but I
> got this problem in gcc 3.4.2 and 3.4.3 provided by gentoo. Others seem
> to have similar issues, and I guess the reason is the same. 3.3.x
> compilers work fine, but I don't think they include any visibility
> patches, right?
> 
> Rergards,
> 
> 	Unai