KDE/kdelibs

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 07 February 2006 21:35, Bill Hoffman wrote:
> At 03:16 PM 2/7/2006, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> >SVN commit 506872 by neundorf:
> >
> >-move the find_package(PCRE) from kdelibs/CMakeLists.txt to
> > kdelibs/kjs/CMakeLists.txt -add a check for regex.h in kjs/CMakeLists.txt
> > and error out if neither PCRE nor regex.h have been found
> >
> >build kdelibs/win independent from the rest of kdelibs/
> >
> >this means
> >1) run cmake on kdelibs/win/
> >2) make kdelibs/win
> >3) install kdelibs/win
> >4) run cmake in kdelibs/ -> point it to the place where kdewin32 has been
> > installed to 5) make kdelibs/
> >6) make install
...
> IMO, this is still a sub optimal solution.  Why should it be so much harder
> to build on windows. It should be:
> cmake
> make|nmake|devenv
> make install
>
> Why should one platform have to do:
> cmake
> make
> make install
> cmake
> make
> make install.
>
> I really think it would be cleaner to provide a way to tell the build
> system that you are providing some functions for a platform.  It is sort of
> overkill to do a try compile for something you know is there.

I have the impression that kdewin32 will soon move somewhere completely else, 
maybe kdesupport. Christian, is this correct ?
So I think for the time until this happens it can stay this way.

Bye
Alex
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