On Sun, Nov 21, 2010 at 12:46:53AM +0000, Albert Astals Cid wrote: > It achieves that by creating a static that instructs KGlobal to load a > given translation catalog on global locale creation. > statics in shared libraries have always been like a red flag for us. i don't know whether the reasons (some proprietary unix dynloader) are still applicable. qt has Q_CONSTRUCTOR_FUNCTION in qglobal.h nowadays. its implementation seems more complicated than necessary to me (why the integer return value?), so i wonder whether that's a workaround for something or just random baroqueness.