Simon Hausmann wrote: > On Monday 17 July 2006 18:33, Simon Hausmann wrote: >> On Monday 17 July 2006 18:02, Alexander Neundorf wrote: >>> On Monday 17 July 2006 00:12, Simon Hausmann wrote: >>>> On Sunday 16. July 2006 20:31, Thiago Macieira wrote: >>>> [...] >>>> >>>>> If you add a .o that happens to be in an ar archive into a shared >>>>> library, you've got a convenience library, not a static library. In >>>>> those cases, just link the .o once and for all. There's no need to >>>>> create the archive. >>>> Yes, but as long as the build system offers this feature people will >>>> use it. So I suggest that we either drop the feature alltogether or we >>>> use -fPIC there as well. But offering it as feature that only works on >>>> i386 when linked into a final shared object is not a good idea IMHO. >>> Building convenience libs is not supported out-of-the-box by cmake. >>> What should we drop ? >> Well, STATIC seems to work out of the box as keyword for kde4_add_library. > > Ah, it seems that is not supported on all platforms. Okay, great, that solves > the issue, STATIC must not be used in KDE then as it's not portable.
For plain old ADD_LIBRARY, the STATIC option works on all platforms to create a static library. What is not supported is the "convenience" part that allows multiple static libraries to be "linked" to form a bigger static library, or all the objects in a static archive to be copied into a shared library whether they are referenced or not. I don't know about kde4_add_library though. -Brad _______________________________________________ Kde-buildsystem mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-buildsystem
