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Bug#355099: Bug #355099: kdelibs FTBFS



After some investigation of the failure of kdelibs to build, I found it 
appears to be a bug in either libtool, ld, or the dynamic linker, so I'm 
CC'ing the maintainers of those packages.  The problem is that lt-meinproc is 
getting linked with a NEEDED entry pointing to libkdecore.so because it 
directly uses symbols from that library, which is indirectly brought in by 
the -lkio argument, but the RPATH on the resulting binary only includes the 
directory containing libkio.so.  Then the dynamic linker can't find where 
libkdecore.so is, despite the fact that libkio.so's RPATH includes the 
directories containing its dependencies, and one of those libraries has the 
RPATH needed for libkdecore.so.

So I can see a few different ways to fix this:

* Make libtool include all indirect rpath's directly on the link command line.  
But I find this ugly, and in fact a step backwards from recent improvements, 
and it really doesn't solve the general problem either.
* Make the dynamic loader able to find libraries within rpath's from already 
loaded libraries.  But this doesn't totally solve the case outside libtool -- 
what if that other library then gets relinked in such a way that it doesn't 
indirectly include that rpath anymore?
* Make ld add the required directory to RPATH when it automatically adds a 
NEEDED entry due to direct usage of symbols from the library involved.  
Somewhat ugly, though.

Anyway, in the meantime, this can be fixed in the kdelibs package by adding 
$(LIB_KDECORE) explicitly to meinproc_LDADD, which it's appropriate to list 
anyway since meinproc directly uses kdecore functions.
-- 
Daniel Schepler



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