new kdecore dependency libutempter.so (bug 140308)

Oswald Buddenhagen ossi at kde.org
Thu Apr 19 18:35:46 BST 2007


On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:01:58PM +0200, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> >utempter is used by kpty. and kpty is used by kprocess. bad chances to
> >actually move it away ...
> >
> >i guess the dynload approach is most fovorable, after all.
> 
> I agree with Oswald that it should be dynamically loaded when necessary.
> 
> However, I would like KPty to move out of kdecore and into kutils. That 
> would bring us down yet another dependency: libutils.
> 
yes, but as noted above, kprocess uses kpty directly. tearing that apart
would create a strange precedent ...
anyway, the libutil usage is alternative to libutempter usage in the
same function, so it should be dynloaded as well.

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