From kde-core-devel Thu Mar 06 09:27:05 2003 From: Stephan Kulow Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 09:27:05 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Konqueror depends on Kate X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=104694318401900 Am Thursday 06 March 2003 01:00 schrieb Dawit A.: > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 18:51, George Staikos wrote: > > On Wednesday 05 March 2003 13:41, Simon Hausmann wrote: > > > On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 12:54:51PM -0500, George Staikos wrote: > > > > Is there really a good reason why konqueror now depends on kate? I > > > > don't think this is reasonable. However KMultiTabBar apparently is > > > > inside kate and depended on by konqueror. > > > > > > It's a build time dependency only (due to static linkage). Why is it > > > a problem? > > > > Oh well that's good. Still, it makes me build kate when I don't > > want/need it. > > It means that you cannot compile one application independent of another when > you need to. For example, while I was working on a bug in Konqueror a few > days ago it was unable to build it because of a change in this widget that > broke the static linkage. I had no idea where to look for this. My first > inclination was to check kdelibs, but I did not find it there. It is sheer > luck/laziness that forced me to search kdebase and find this dependency on > kate/lib! The last thing I would want to do when attempting to fix bugs in > Konqueror is compile the entire kdebase package along with the sometimes > necessary recompile of kdelibs and libkonq. It would have taken several > hours on my machine :( > Use unsermake and type "make konqueror/konqueror" :) Greetings, Stephan