> Regarding the build failures, please file enhancement bug
> reports against those particular packages.  For some reason they are
> not explicitly exporting their shared symbols (this is normally done with a
> KDE_EXPORT line or similar in each public class definition), causing
> the build failures.
> 
> For the others, I would assume that hidden symbols are not
> supported in the Autotools cases, and that CMake is simply being verbose
> in the CMake cases.

I can file reports, but I would like some guidance to remedy the problem. You mention KDE_EXPORT. I can grep other modules for such instances, but a basic punch list of what is needed would help me attempt a patch and remedy the problem sooner rather than later. :)

Second, how do I know or check that symbols are being hidden?

Darrell