Mosfet wrote:
> 
> Hi. As the earlier logs show I ported kdvi to KParts/Konq. In doing this
> I needed to make most of it a shared library (libkdvi) and I hacked the
> Makefile.am to link to the kpathsea static library in the kdvi
> directory.
> 
> Regretfully, my hack didn't work - it's linking to the system kpathsea
> library and everything I try makes libtool error with "Cannot link to
> non-libtool objects". KPathsea doesn't use libtool tho and is built
> static so I am hurting with this. Can anyone look at it?
> 
> BTW: The shared library libkdvi *must* be the one linked to kpathsea,
> *not* the kdvi executable.
> 
It's simple as: there is no way to link a module against a static
library. When I spoke with Torben about this flaw in canossa, he
said something like "Tja" :)

The fix is simple: rewrite kpathsea's Makefile to use noinst_LTLIBRARIES

Greetings, Stephan

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