library dependency implementation

[Ralf Habacker]

Am Dienstag, 25. Oktober 2005 19:59 schrieb Alexander Neundorf:
> On Tuesday 25 October 2005 19:17, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> ...
>
> > The challenge is
> >
> > 1. to find a way to specify libraries platform independent  for example
> > obj.target='kdecore' and not obj.target='libkdecore' -> not a real
> > problem
> >
> > 2. to reference libraries platform independent. -> the real challenge
> >
> > This is the reason, why I introduced the libpaths/libs form without any
> > prefix/suffix but there are issues in the implementation I have reported
>
> cmake only uses the "name" part and adds automatically suffix and prefix.
> So it knows everytime an executable or library is used, that it has to add
> them. This works really well and can probably be also implemented for 
> scons.
This is scons/bksys behavior too. 

> It has the side effect that if you have e.g. the executable 
> "kdevelop" and the library "libkdevelop.so" both will be called simply
> "kdevelop" on cmake level.

And how does cmake knows in which path the library libkdevelop.so is located 
in a platform independent way ? 

Regards 
Ralf