Joerg Mayer wrote:
On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 11:19:46AM +0200, Kovarththanan Rajaratnam wrote:
What's the idea of crating the subdir CMakefiles and the static libs?
I was happy to get rid of them as they add an unnecessary linking step.
Also, are you sure that linking a static lib into a dynamic one is OK?
The same question holds for the other static libs added by other commits.
The idea was that instead of lumping it all together in one file, we
could split it up to make it easier to understand/maintain in the
future. This is also the approach used by our current build setup and I
hadn't heard anyone complaining about that so I just went ahead and
replicated the same structure.
IMO, it was done because it was convenient and "easier" with the old build
system. I don't think there's any better reason for it. The -Werror stuff
also caused a split into a "clean" and a "non-clean" lib, which can be
handled much better with the CMake mechanism (and which is near the top of
my todo list).
I'd really like to undo that change, because I don't see any advantage in
doing it the "old" way.
Since I haven't heard any convicing arguments (from both sides ;) I
think it would be great if other people could give their opnion on this
subject.
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Best regards,
Kovarththanan Rajaratnam
