Removing some things from C++ parser

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 26.07.07 10:33:04, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 25.07.07 23:29:57, Matt Rogers wrote:
> >> I'd recommend having a shared library that contains all the parser  
> >> stuff which the tests can link against rather than pulling in the  
> >> sources for the particular things to test. You would also be able to  
> >> link the plugin against the shared library as well. There's nothing  
> >> saying that any installed shared library has to have public headers,  
> >> so we can just not install those and be ok.
> > 
> > This is not just about the parser lib, but a general problem. The thing
> > with installing a shared library is that whenever somebody changes the
> > code in a BIC manner the version has to be increased (AFAIK at least),
> > which might be forgotten easily. 
> 
> Even when the only thing linking against it is always distributed at the 
> same time?

I'm not sure. I think that when a shared library (wether used or not)
breaks ABI it needs to increas its soversion. But I'm really no expert
on this.

> > I'm wondering wether there's a way to
> > tell cmake to not recompile the sources for the tests, which IMHO is the
> > only benefit of using a shared lib for the parts of the plugin.
> 
> The "convenience library" thing comes up frequently, last I checked 
> there is no easy way to do it (so said the wiki anyway). Is it possible 
> to make a static library instead? (Only the plugin and test apps use it, 
> right? In which case the increased code size is not an issue.)

No, static libs are a no-go - AFAIK. It needs -fPIC on 64bit systems in
various places... Tried that for the python plugin, didn't work very
well.

Andreas

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