From kde-core-devel  Mon Nov 05 21:39:37 2007
From: Thiago Macieira <thiago () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:39:37 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: WITH_PREFIX for kdemodules?
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Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>Ok. So this means if every plugin would have the "lib" prefix we could
> link to every plugin (maybe on all platforms).

No.

You can dlopen any library. You can't link to plugins, lib prefix or not.=20
(Unless you do the test and verify that it works -- I didn't)

>If the plugin doesn't have the "lib" prefix, we can't link to it (at
> least on some platforms).

Even if the library doesn't have the lib prefix, we can link to it. But it=
=20
requires the full path to it to be passed on the linker command-line.=20
Definitely not recommended.

>So we have three options:
>1) leave it as it is and keep the "WITH_PREFIX" option, so some plugins
> have the "lib" prefix and others don't
>
>2) remove the WITH_PREFIX option and always use the "lib" prefix ->
> should bring no problems, may look at bit ugly, probably also doesn't
> bring any advantages
>
>3) remove the WITH_PREFIX option, never use the "lib" prefix -> slightly
> nicer code, linking to a plugin not possible (since -lkfoo won't find
> kfoo.so)
>
>If it's no problem for us that we cannot link to a plugin I'd vote for
> 3)

And I agree. We shouldn't be linking to plugins.

If someone wants to dlopen a library, QLibrary already prepends the "lib"=20
prefix if necessary, on the proper platforms.

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