On Sunday 24 November 2002 6:23 pm, Benjamin Reed wrote: > One of the problems we're running into getting KDE working on Darwin is > libtool's concept of a "module", and how it's mapped onto Darwin's > linker behavior.
This was talked about some time ago by Michael Matz and myself. > To get around issues with prebinding and speed of C++ code loading, > especially on linux, KDE creates many of it's executables as shared > libraries, linked twice, once as a module and once a binary. So the > "kbackgammon" program is kbackgammon.so and kbackgammon, with main() > existing in kbackgammon.so, and kbackgammon being linked against the > .so and an empty dummy.cpp file to make linkers happy as far as making > a program. I have create patches to the KDE build system that solves a related problem that affects NetBSD a.out platforms. I believe they should fix the Darwin problem. Unfortunately Michael never folded them back into KDE. I guess he is too busy. :( Nick
$NetBSD: patch-aa,v 1.1 2002/05/31 14:02:54 skrll Exp $ --- kbackgammon/Makefile.am.orig Fri Oct 5 12:52:05 2001 +++ kbackgammon/Makefile.am @@ -2,21 +2,22 @@ INCLUDES = -I$(top_srcdir)/libkdegames -I$(top_srcdir)/libkdegames/kgame/ -I$(srcdir)/engines $(all_includes) bin_PROGRAMS = kbackgammon -lib_LTLIBRARIES = kbackgammon.la +lib_LTLIBRARIES = libkbackgammon_main.la kbackgammon.la -CLEANFILES = dummy.cpp - -kbackgammon_la_LIBADD = $(LIB_KDEUI) $(LIB_KSYCOCA) -lkdeprint \ +libkbackgammon_main_la_LIBADD = $(LIB_KDEUI) $(LIB_KSYCOCA) -lkdeprint \ ./engines/libkbgengines.la -kbackgammon_la_SOURCES = main.cpp kbg.cpp kbgboard.cpp kbgtextview.cpp \ +libkbackgammon_main_la_SOURCES = main.cpp kbg.cpp kbgboard.cpp kbgtextview.cpp \ kbgstatus.cpp +kbackgammon_la_LIBADD = libkbackgammon_main.la +kbackgammon_la_SOURCES = kbackgammon_main.cpp + kbackgammon_la_METASOURCES = AUTO kbackgammon_la_LDFLAGS = $(all_libraries) $(KDE_RPATH) -module -avoid-version -kbackgammon_LDADD = kbackgammon.la $(top_builddir)/libkdegames/libkdegames.la \ +kbackgammon_LDADD = libkbackgammon_main.la $(top_builddir)/libkdegames/libkdegames.la \ $(LIB_KSYCOCA) -kbackgammon_SOURCES = dummy.cpp +kbackgammon_SOURCES = kbackgammon_main.cpp kbackgammon_LDFLAGS = $(all_libraries) $(KDE_RPATH) noinst_HEADERS = version.h kbg.h kbgboard.h kbgtextview.h kbgstatus.h @@ -34,9 +35,6 @@ messages: rc.cpp LIST=`find . -name \*.h -o -name \*.hh -o -name \*.H -o -name \*.hxx -o -name \*.hpp -o -name \*.cpp -o -name \*.cc -o -name \*.cxx -o -name \*.ecpp -o -name \*.C`; \ $(XGETTEXT) $$LIST -o $(podir)/kbackgammon.pot - -dummy.cpp: - echo > dummy.cpp install-data-local: rm -rf $(kde_appsdir)/Games/kbackgammon.desktop
