kdelibs compile error

[Ralf Habacker]

Alexander Neundorf schrieb:
> On Monday 04 August 2008, Ralf Habacker wrote:
>   
>> Patrick Spendrin schrieb:
>>     
>>> Ralf Habacker schrieb:
>>>       
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> with recent svn source code (tested with cmake 2.6.0 and 2.6.1) I got
>>>> linker errors:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Scanning dependencies of target kde4-config
>>>> Linking CXX executable ..\bin\kde4-config.exe
>>>> LINK : fatal error LNK1104: cannot open file 'optimized.lib'
>>>> LINK Pass 1 failed. with 2
>>>>
>>>> A look into the related build.cmake shows that the term
>>>> optimized;E:/daten/kde/emerge-msvc-root/lib/kdewin32.lib;debug;E:/daten/
>>>> kde/emerge-msvc-root/lib/kdewin32d.lib from the CMakeCache.txt are
>>>> evaluated into
>>>>
>>>> optimized.lib
>>>> E:\daten\kde\emerge-msvc-root\lib\kdewin32.lib
>>>> debug.lib
>>>> E:\daten\kde\emerge-msvc-root\lib\kdewin32d.lib
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> The optimized.lib and debug.lib are complete wrong here and there should
>>>> only be one real library listed on the link line depending on the build
>>>> type.
>>>>
>>>> Short time ago this does work without any problems.  Any  hints how to
>>>> solve this problem would be very welcome because it is currently not
>>>> possible to release several important binary packages for the KDE 4.1
>>>> release.
>>>>         
>>> Exactly the same happens with the general keyword: it is not correctly
>>> used and thus produces strange errors (trying to link general.lib)-
>>>       
>> The general keyword works for me with cmake 2.6.0 and 2.6.1
>>
>>     
>>> this seems to be a cmake related problem (maybe a buildsystem one as
>>> cmake worked with this before).
>>>       
>> When I remove the optimized/debug libraries from the related _DEPENDS
>> lines in  CMakeCache.txt  and add a
>> general;E:/daten/kde/emerge-msvc-root/lib/kdewin32d.lib (for debug
>> builds) then there is no linking error. I assume that there is a problem
>> in the area where cmake parses the _DEPENDS lines.
>>     
>
> We really need to get this fixed.
> It would be cool if you could find out what happens, I didn't have the problem 
> yet on my system.
> Which buildtype have you set ? Maybe "DEBUG" ?
>
> The keywords "general", "optimized" and "debug" are handled in
> ------------
> cmTargetLinkLibrariesCommand::InitialPass().
> If there is a way that TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES() ends up e.g. 
> with "general;kdecore;debug;debug;kdeui;", i.e. two keywords behind each 
> other, then this might cause the problem. The question is, can that happen ? 
> It shouldn't. Can you find out whether that happens there ?
>   
seems not to be.
> --------------
> They are also handled in 
> cmComputeLinkDepends::AddVarLinkEntries() and cmTarget::GatherDependencies(). 
> These two functions may have the same issue, i.e. if the arguments they get 
> contains two of the keywords in a row it might happen.
> Can check whether that happens ?
>   
In this place there is some magic with compatibility I don't understand 
yet. As there seems not to be a debug mode like qmake  or autotools have 
the only way to find what's going wrong is to add debug prints on 
several places to see what happens inside - but this need cmake to be 
compilable :-( 

compiling with mingw would be an option for adding debug prints, but 
further debugging is not an option because using command line gdb on 
win32 is a night mare.

Ralf