[Kde-games-devel] Review Request 126860: [kigo] Initialise KCrash

[Ian Wadham]

> On Jan. 24, 2016, 8:54 a.m., Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> > I think we only need to do this in libkdegames, since none of the games runs without it.
> > 
> > Or is there a benefit in initialising it in each game separately?
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> Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
>     I don't know if it can be done in libkdegames, the problem right now is that kigo will not link KCrash on many distributions that pass --as-needed to the linker. So, many applications have been patched to run initialize in main.cpp. See also: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.kde.devel.frameworks/27044/
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> Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>     Where in libkdegames would you add it?
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> Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
>     To be honest, no idea. :D
>     The apidoc of initialize() says that it is called in KF5. I thought it might be good to lift it one layer of libraries up and avoid calling it in each game separately.
>     
>     The discussion linked above however gives the impression that it is not yet 100 % clear how KCrash is handled. For now it seems best to link against KCrash and call its initialize method and thus require KF5 >5.15.
>     
>     This is a discussion for all games so if we have a consens we should put it on the mailing list in the thread I started yesterday about this. :)

Is it possible to add KCrash to KStandardGameAction? If so, that could take in most (if not all) games.


- Ian


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On Jan. 23, 2016, 10:26 p.m., Andreas Sturmlechner wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 23, 2016, 10:26 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Games.
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> Repository: kigo
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> Description
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> Initialise KCrash
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> Diffs
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>   CMakeLists.txt 63e98b1eabd2b2043c76a8f11641c84213fbc7bd 
>   src/main.cpp 462d14e3686ba6b7a1149cdef594a05db1460dc1 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/126860/diff/
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> Testing
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> DrKonqi now starts as expected after crash.
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> Thanks,
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> Andreas Sturmlechner
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