[Qt-interest] unix/compile.test

[Paul Floyd]

Thiago Macieira wrote:

> 
> If the order is wrong, then the order was wrong in whatever called the 
> test.
> 
> Do you have a specific case where this is a problem? If so, where are the 
> linker flags coming from?

This was when trying to build KDE 4 on Solaris, so probably with mods 
here and there.

As it stands, the configure script test for qsql is

"$unixtests/compile.test" "$XQMAKESPEC" "$QMAKE_CONFIG" $OPT_VERBOSE 
"$relpath" "$outpath" config.tests/unix/psql "PostgreSQL" 
$QT_LFLAGS_PSQL $L_FLAGS $QT_CFLAGS_PSQL $I_FLAGS $l_FLAGS

and this was causing -lss -lcrypto to appear before their directory in 
the Makefile, and this test was failing.

I didn't get as far as tracking down exactly what was wrong - it might 
have been some patch or it might have been the extensive LDFLAGS and 
CFLAGS used when invoking the configure script. When I looked at 
compile.test, it struck me that it was doing nothing to enforce the 
order of -L and -l, so I sent a mail with my idea of improving it.

A+
Paul