kcrash when started from terminal

[David Faure]

On Wednesday 23 September 2015 14:24:33 Harald Sitter wrote:
> Heya
> 
> is it intentional that KCrash is not running when an application is
> started via kdeinit?
> 
> In particular since only very few libraries seem to link KCrash it
> never gets loaded for 99% of applications, thus not installing as a
> qcoreapp crash handler and thus not handling crashes.
> Notably exception being forking from kdeinit (i.e. krunner a desktop file).
> 
> It took me quite a while to notice that apps started from a terminal
> never get a drkonqi on crash and track that to kcrash not having its
> Q_COREAPP_STARTUP_FUNCTION run, so I think at best this is very
> unintuitive from a development perspective :)

The plan was for all GUI apps to link to KCrash, and I think this is still the
best fix here. Someone needs to go through CMakeLists.txt for apps and add
KF5::Crash.

Do people porting to KF5 follow a guide for the cmakelists.txt part of it?
That guide should mention this too ;)

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE Frameworks 5