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Re: Linking problem

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On Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:39:40 +0000
Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> wrote:

>Kevin Nathan <knathan@project54.com> writes:
>> I have just been tasked with maintaining a KDE/Qt app originally
>> written in 2004/2005 and parts of it updated in 2009. It is currently
>> compiling on a KDE 3.5.7 and Qt 3.0 system and needs to be able to
>> run on systems with various versions of KDE.
>
>Chances are that the -rpath or -R linker options do what you
>need. You'll have to ship the libraries and the binaries which need 
>them and know the place where the libraries will be installed. 

I already have this ready, by copying everything necessary under the
home dir and will have an install CD for them to run. It's been years
since I built an RPM, so that is next on my list. :-)

>The compiler will also need suitable -I options to find the 'custom'
>headers and the linker additional -L to find them at link time.
>

I've noticed that the "--sysroot" puts the -R in front of the header
includes, so I just have to figure out what I am missing during the
linking step. My current problem here is to inhibit the system
libraries. I've added the LDFLAGS=--sysroot=DIR but I must be missing
something. I will be digging into it more, tonight.


>Provided autosorrow is being used correctly (almost a contradictio in
>adiecto, it seems ...), all of this should be settable by passing
>suitable LDFLAGS and CFLAGS environment variables to the configure
>invocation.

That's what I am attempting to do. Due to some strange editting in
the .m4 files, I cannot run autoconf without breaking the compile/link
(Qt's uic and moc stop running then) but running configure is still ok.
This particular battle will be enjoined after I get executables that
can run under other versions. :-) I also want to investigate how to use
qmake when there are multiple programs being compiled in separate
subdirs; I've heard this is hard to do, but I do not really need all
the flexibility/power of the autotools for this program.

Thanks very much for your reply, it helped me look into a few other
areas and prompted me to add the LDFLAGS statement to my configure.


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Linking problem Kevin Nathan <knathan@project54.com> - 2011-12-15 00:11 -0700
  Re: Linking problem Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-12-15 09:39 +0000
    Re: Linking problem Kevin Nathan <knathan@project54.com> - 2011-12-15 16:29 -0700
      Re: Linking problem Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-12-16 00:47 +0000
        Re: Linking problem Kevin Nathan <knathan@project54.com> - 2011-12-15 23:42 -0700
          Re: Linking problem Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat@mssgmbh.com> - 2011-12-16 17:46 +0000
            Re: Linking problem Kevin Nathan <knathan@project54.com> - 2011-12-16 10:55 -0700
            Re: Linking problem Kevin Nathan <knathan@project54.com> - 2012-01-01 10:49 -0700
          Re: Linking problem Lusotec <nomail@nomail.not> - 2011-12-19 00:27 +0000
            Re: Linking problem Kevin Nathan <knathan@project54.com> - 2011-12-19 10:16 -0700

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