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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: Anyone want to look at a libtool problem? ;-)
From:       Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date:       1999-10-31 16:21:18
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Stephan Kulow wrote:
> 
> 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
> 

Maybe simple to you ;-) It doesn't use Makefile.am, how do I do that?
Myself, David, and Simon all looked at it and are lost :(

> Greetings, Stephan
> 
> --
> Everyone makes mistakes -- but we are more experienced at it
>                                       anonymous KDE developer

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Daniel M. Duley - Unix developer & sys admin.
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