KConfig issues prevent compiling KDE applications under Windows

[Luigi Toscano]

Stephen Kelly ha scritto:
> On 02/04/2017 08:14 AM, Matthew Dawson wrote:
>> On Thursday, February 2, 2017 10:08:53 PM EST Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
>>> On 1 February 2017 at 14:34, David Faure <faure at kde.org> wrote:
>>>> One note though: this is a failure to link a unittest, your release isn't
>>>> blocked, you can just disable the building of unittests in kconfig.
>>>>
>>>> The double definition can be explained, the unittest links to
>>>> KF5ConfigCore
>>>> and then also compiles in ../src/core/kconfigdata.cpp because that class
>>>> is not
>>>> exported.
>>> Hi,
>>> Apparently it is since eab822e20620 (Jan 15).
>>> ​The bug #​375654 does not seem to provide version info but the fix isn't
>>> just released, right? CC'd Stephen Kelly.
>> It seems this class was exported so it can be accessed through the Python 
>> bindings.  Considering it wasn't exported before, I'm wondering why it was 
>> exported for Python?
>>
>> Since removing it would be an ABI for Python scripts and the tagging is 
>> happening today, can we just back out the KEntryMap API from Python?  We can 
>> add it back for the next release if there is a use case for it.
>>
>> @David Faure, when do you plan on tagging this change?  For now I committed a 
>> change to the auto test so it will at least build on Windows 
>> (b939b48f8d5e5eaf9a51a7e9bda2ad8cedca27d9) which should be included.  Would 
>> there be time to remove KEntryMap before the tag/release?
> 
> 
> In case you want to not export the class instead, the attached should work.

As this is a potential release blocker, let's CC release-team at .

Ciao
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Luigi