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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [Kopete-devel] Re: cant compile 6.2 on kde3.1.1 on RedHat 9
From:       Martijn Klingens <klingens () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-05-10 9:33:10
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On Saturday 10 May 2003 11:26, Daniel Stone wrote:
> Sort of.
>
> -devel packages provide libfoo.so, which is a link to libfoo.so.x, which
> is a link to libfoo.so.x.x - the latter two are provided by library
> packages themselves. This is because when something is linked, it
> includes the major soname version as part of the link information, so
> you don't need libfoo.so. This means libfoo.so is only ever need for
> compilation.
>
> Obviously, ld isn't going to pick up the major soname version itself, so
> it needs the link there.

Hrm. Confusing.

I *think* I understand it now, but don't kill me if I still have it all wrong 
now :)

> > And if Kopete explicitly links against it itself I'm more than intrigued
> > to know what part does as I see nothing in Kopete that could really be
> > using libart.
>
> Isn't it for pixmaps and stuff? We have some of those.

Hmm? Do we use SVG icons and scaling? I don't think so.

-- 
Martijn

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