Bug#797644: kdelibs5-dev: kopete FTBFS: No rule to make target '/usr/lib/libsoprano.so', needed by 'kopete/kopete'

[Martin Steghöfer <martin@steghoefer.eu>]

Thank you for your comment, Scott! Let my clarify...

Scott Kitterman wrote:
> If there's a warning not to link against it, isn't the solution not to do that?

Yes, of course it would be a solution *not* to link against it, but 
"kdelibs5-dev" forces me to do so (that's why I blame it).

That's actually part of the point I was trying to make: My package (as 
well as others that are FTBFS'ing in the same way) doesn't actually 
*want* to link against libsoprano. It never asks for it. As I said 
before: The library libsoprano "is never even mentioned in any of the 
CMakeLists.txt files".

It is some CMake magic in kdelibs5-dev's macros that pulls it in. It is 
enough to do the following:

/
| KDE4_ADD_EXECUTABLE( myMainApp mymainapp.cxx )
| TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES( myMainApp ${KDE4_KHTML_LIBS} )
\

That makes "myMainApp" link against libsoprano.

It's fine for "libkhtml.so" to request linking to libsoprano. But if it 
does so, IMHO its corresponding -dev package should make sure that the 
necessary dependencies are pulled in.

Hope that clears things up a little...

Cheers,
Martin