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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: WITH_PREFIX for kdemodules?
From:       Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-10-31 16:58:35
Message-ID: 200710311758.40977.thiago () kde ! org
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Em Wednesday 31 October 2007 16:28:46 Matthias Kretz escreveu:
> On Monday 29 October 2007, Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> > Is there a technical reason (e.g. some tools expect this) to use 'lib'
> > prefix for kde plugins?
>
> I was chatting with dirk about this once and he convinced me that it's a
> nice feature to have on Linux where it's possible to use the lib as plugin
> and shared lib at the same time. E.g. applications like konsole that
> provide a KPart and a shell. To save some startup time konsole on Linux
> could link to it's part instead of dlopening it.

That's a great feature, but that doesn't work in all platforms.

Fortunately, I don't know of any platform that Qt supports and where that 
feature isn't supported. I recall MacOS X being one of them, but I no longer 
can find that information.

Maybe it's for MacOS X < 10.3 (which introduced dlfcn.h and dlopen(3)).

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