> Hi Michele,
>
> explanation of very tight depending on binutils is simple:
>
> For easier detection of particular bug were incorporated into kdesktop_lock
> function to generate backtrace (commit 786e248c - tdebase). Later the same
> function incorporated into tdeio (commit a166b1da - tdelibs). And lastly,
> both these functions were replaced with improved function kdBacktrace in
> kdebug (commit a5ba7ad7 - tdelibs).
>
> This implementation uses for generate backtraces library bfd from binutils.
> And this library is causing this problem with a very tight dependency. This
> library is always one specific version and does not allow even a small
> difference. For example on Debian Squeeze:
libbfd-2.20.1-system.20100303.so
>
> For this reason, wherever it is used kdBacktrace => is dependent on libbfd
> =>
> is so strict dependency on a particular version of binutils.
>
> The solution would be if instead of linking the library dynamically loaded.
> But it can be a problem when that will happen in a crash handler => in an
> emergency situation.
>
> --
> Slavek
>