Fwd: introducing brockenboring

[Piotr Szymański]

Hi,
Przeczytajcie to i niech mi ktos napisze cos bez przeklenstw bo mi rece 
opadaja. Przydalby sie kloczek zeby ich zbluzgac.

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Subject: introducing brockenboring
Date: Wednesday 25 of June 2003 17:19
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo at kde.org>
To: kde-core-devel at kde.org

Hi!

Currently our kdeinit support in the Makefiles lack
as the kdeinit modules are installed in parallel to
a binary linking against these modules. This has
some drawbacks:

1. glibc's ldconfig doesn't cache DSOs that don't
  match the lib*.so* pattern, so starting konqueror
  won't be able to use the cache to find konqueror.so
2. (more important) this doesn't work at all on non-ELF
  systems (have you asked who the hell is using non-ELF
  these days? Mac OS X does)

Benjamin Reed once tried to get am_edit to create a
shared library per KLM and then link both the KLM and
the binary to it. As he failed, he tried the same for unsermake.
Problem with unsermake is: automake users will fall behind
without kdeinit support at all.

So we made a short brain storm session today and came up
with the following idea: install a kdeinit module only and create
in bin a link to a binary that will be kdeinit without kdeinit:
"one binary to rule them all".

So here is the patch to do exactly that: introducing brockenboring

Greetings, Stephan
P.S. DSO == dynamic shared object,
       KLM == kdeinit loaded module

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Piotr Szymanski
djurban at averne.net
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