[kde-freebsd] Build problems

[David Johnson]

On Sunday 06 July 2008 05:02:37 pm David Johnson wrote:
> I'm still getting problems with some apps trying to link to KDE3 libraries.
> So far these include kfind, kdialog, kmenuedit and khotnewstuff. I have
> joined the kde-buildsystem mailing list and sent them a help request. 
> Hopefully they will have a solution.

I've been told that as a long term solution we must remove KDE3 
from /usr/local and put it into its own private hierarchy. Is that something 
we want to tackle in the short term?

In the meantime we can make a bunch of patches to get stuff to build if the 
user has KDE3 installed. The problem is in the way cmake generates lists of 
libraries to link to. I haven't been able to figure out what it is doing, but 
we can work around it by explicitly specifying library dependencies. For 
example, kfind has this line:

target_link_libraries(kfind  ${KDE4_KDE3SUPPORT_LIBS} )

which generates:

-L/usr/local/lib/qt4 -L/usr/local/lib -L/usr/local/kde4/lib

...but changing that to...

target_link_libraries(kfind ${KDE4_KDEUI_LIBS}  ${KDE4_KDE3SUPPORT_LIBS} )

... will generate:

-L/usr/local/lib/qt4 -L/usr/local/kde4/lib -L/usr/local/lib

I just wish I knew what cmake was doing. It all seems very arbitrary to me. 

-- 
David Johnson