Changes to build with CMake 2.6

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday 27 April 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 27.04.08 17:14:31, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Sunday 27 April 2008, Frederik Schwarzer wrote:
> > > On Sunday 27 April 2008 10:26:19 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > This problem shows up if kdelibs is built with cmake 2.4, but other
> > > > modules are getting built with cmake 2.6. I've posted that quite some
> > > > time ago already on the buildsystem list and AFAIK the conclusion was
> > > > that its not supported to do that.
> > >
> > > Hmm, I talked to a Debian-kde guy yesterday and he said the problem ist
> > > that cmake did some implicit linking which many devs got used to.
> > > However he also said that kde 4.0.68 depends on cmake 2.6, so I guess
> > > it is built with 2.6. Here i have 2.6-patch 0 RC-8.
> > > The concusion of the debian packagers is that they start sending
> > > patches upstream to link to every needed library explicitly.
> > >
> > > My setup here is a packages-based KDE installation from the Debian
> > > experimental archive and some apps that are compiled from source.
> >
> > If you have very current kdelibs from debian, this is the reason why it
> > doesn't work (I didn't want to say that the package is currently broken).
> > They did significant modifications to the build of kdelibs, and
> > apparently they broke the build for you:
> > http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=160976
> >
> > So, build it completely from the sources and let us know if you then
> > still have problems.
>
> But isn't it still correct that a given application/library/plugin
> should list all libraries it uses symbols from. i.e. if the documentview
> uses libktexteditor.so and libkdeui it should list both in its
> target_link_libraries (or rather the variables for both) and not depend
> on kte pulling in kdeui, right?

Yes, but we can't fix problems caused by modifications by somebody else. We 
can only make sure that what we have in svn works. It is not possible to 
check that all modules build against all existing modifications out there 
(except maybe if there was a full-time person doing only this).

Alex