Review Request 124892: bug 342962: kdeclarative plugins should be built as a bundle plugin and not a shared library

[Harald Sitter]

> On Aug. 25, 2015, 1:41 p.m., David Edmundson wrote:
> > I've got both Gentoo and Arch saying this causes a major problem [1]:
> > 
> > libdraganddropplugin.so changes to draganddropplugin.so
> > in /usr/lib/qt/qml/org/kde/draganddrop
> > 
> > and then they don't get loaded.
> > 
> > any ideas? Otherwise I'll have to revert this before release.
> > 
> > [1] https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/plasma-desktop-git/
> 
> Harald Sitter wrote:
>     I tried it this morning and it seemed to work. Now I try it again and it fails....
>     
>     I suppose this is the point where we call for a revert hammer? :P
> 
> Harald Sitter wrote:
>     from qmldir documentation
>     
>     Declares a plugin to be made available by the module.
>     <Name> is the plugin library name. This is usually not the same as the file name of the plugin binary, which is platform dependent; e.g. the library MyAppTypes would produce libMyAppTypes.so on Linux and MyAppTypes.dll on Windows.

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.0/variable/CMAKE_SHARED_MODULE_PREFIX.html


- Harald


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On Aug. 23, 2015, 9:16 p.m., Hanspeter Niederstrasser wrote:
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> (Updated Aug. 23, 2015, 9:16 p.m.)
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> Review request for Build System, KDE Software on Mac OS X, KDE Frameworks, Plasma, and Harald Sitter.
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> Bugs: 342962
>     https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=342962
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> Repository: kdeclarative
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> Description
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> The kdeclarative plugins (draganddropplugin, kcoreaddonsplugin, kio, kquickcontrolsprivateplugin, and kquickcontrolsaddonsplugin) are being built as shared libraries. They should be built as bundles (MODULE) in the CMakeLists.txt file.
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> When built as SHARED as in the current code, libdraganddropplugin.dylib gets installed to $PREFIX/share/qt5/qml/org/kde/draganddrop, but is given an OS X install_name of $PREFIX/lib/libdraganddropplugin.dylib. This mismatch can cause problems. It is also given a compatibility_version of 0.0.0.
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> Diffs
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>   src/qmlcontrols/draganddrop/CMakeLists.txt e8127e4 
>   src/qmlcontrols/kcoreaddons/CMakeLists.txt 3f77f2d 
>   src/qmlcontrols/kioplugin/CMakeLists.txt 7b258e0 
>   src/qmlcontrols/kquickcontrols/private/CMakeLists.txt da355c1 
>   src/qmlcontrols/kquickcontrolsaddons/CMakeLists.txt 5b711e1 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/124892/diff/
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> Testing
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> Since the plugin is not supposed to be a linkable library, it should be built as MODULE in CMakeLists.txt. The physical install location remains the same and plugins don't have install_names. This corrects the install_name/install location mismatch. The change should not have any effect on non-OS X systems.
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> Thanks,
> 
> Hanspeter Niederstrasser
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