Patch for automake plugin to compile again

[Milian Wolff]

Andreas Pakulat, 04.03.2011:
> On 04.03.11 10:49:36, Milian Wolff wrote:
> > Lambert CLARA, 04.03.2011:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > I've stumbled across a build error when I tried to compile the automake
> > > plugin from playground.
> > > 
> > > It fails when linking lib/libkdevautomakeparser.a(makefileinterface.o) :
> > > > relocation R_X86_64_32 against `MakefileInterface::staticMetaObject'
> > > > can not be used when making a shared object; recompile with -fPIC
> > > 
> > > It seems that it was trying to link a static library to a dynamic one.
> > 
> > is this not allowed?
> 
> It is allowed, but only under some circuumstances (need to compile the
> static lib with -fPIC which IIRC is not supported on all *nix platforms
> that distro's build packages for) and it has one major problem: Not all
> symbols of the static library will end up in the shared one. Only those
> used by code in the shared library, anything else will be dropped.
> 
> > > Attached is a patch that fixes the compilation of the plugin and its
> > > unit tests. I also increased the X-KDevelop-Version to 12.
> > 
> > practically I'm fine with it, if it fixes a problem. I wouldn't have
> > guessed this would be a problem though (not that I wrote that code).
> > 
> > anyways, if noone objects it can be merged.
> 
> The alternative would be another private shared lib like cmake has.
> Downside being that distro packagers will yell again at you :)

ok, thanks for the clarification - lambert, please attach the patch as created 
by "git format-patch" so that you get the proper attribution for it.

bye
-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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