Re: the reason why kdemultimedia isn't ported yet

[Marc Espie <espie@schutzenberger.liafa.jussieu.fr>]

On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 10:48:08AM +0200, Marc Espie wrote:
> I've looked a bit at kdemultimedia. It's a bit harder to port than
> other kde sub-projects, somewhat more linux-dependent.
> And it uses a libmpeg, which conflicts with gimp's libmpeg.
> 
> However, the main reason it's not running yet is a linking operation.
> I've had rather big ld's out of kde, but this one beats them all.
> 
> I've cranked ulimit -d all the way to 1GB of memory, and seen ld gobble it,
> megabyte after megabyte... and it's still not enough.
> 
Looking some more, kdemultimedia uses two libraries with the same name
(libatun). I'm not sure at all libtool is geared to achieve this kind of
stunt... this is definitely the issue that's killing kdemultimedia,
currently.