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List:       kde-commits
Subject:    Re: Anyone want to look at a libtool problem? ;-)
From:       weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date:       1999-11-01 12:44:43
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Hi,

On Sun, 31 Oct 1999, 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

Then I will make killus libs shared, too.

I still had the hope that coolo found some magic solution in the meantime
:-)

Bye
Torben

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

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