WITH_PREFIX for kdemodules?

[Thiago Macieira]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>Ok. So this means if every plugin would have the "lib" prefix we could
> link to every plugin (maybe on all platforms).

No.

You can dlopen any library. You can't link to plugins, lib prefix or not. 
(Unless you do the test and verify that it works -- I didn't)

>If the plugin doesn't have the "lib" prefix, we can't link to it (at
> least on some platforms).

Even if the library doesn't have the lib prefix, we can link to it. But it 
requires the full path to it to be passed on the linker command-line. 
Definitely not recommended.

>So we have three options:
>1) leave it as it is and keep the "WITH_PREFIX" option, so some plugins
> have the "lib" prefix and others don't
>
>2) remove the WITH_PREFIX option and always use the "lib" prefix ->
> should bring no problems, may look at bit ugly, probably also doesn't
> bring any advantages
>
>3) remove the WITH_PREFIX option, never use the "lib" prefix -> slightly
> nicer code, linking to a plugin not possible (since -lkfoo won't find
> kfoo.so)
>
>If it's no problem for us that we cannot link to a plugin I'd vote for
> 3)

And I agree. We shouldn't be linking to plugins.

If someone wants to dlopen a library, QLibrary already prepends the "lib" 
prefix if necessary, on the proper platforms.

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