On Sunday 19 September 2004 11:30, Simone Gotti wrote:
> On Saturday 18 September 2004 21:36, Dan Armak wrote:
> > Come to think of it, there is one other issue; some kde makefiles are
> > badly written, and link against libraries built in the source tree under
> > $S rather than against installed libraries under /usr/kde/....  To
> > separate the library and app into two ebuilds we'd need to fix such
> > makefiles. Because I'm speaking from somewhat dated knowledge here, and
> > have nevr actually tried to fix such makefiles ;-), I don't know how
> > difficult it'd be or how widespread the problem is today.
> >
> > Anything else I'm forgetting?
>
> The aren't badly written, this is the right behavior, For example kmail
> wants to compile against libkdepim. You can't link against a library that
> isn't already installed o an old installed one with less functions.
Should be a fallback IMHO. configure can check for things like that. At least, 
we're going to have to make it do that if we go through with this :-)

As for old versions, isn't that what library versions are for?

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