where to install the cmake files to ?

[Michael Pyne]

On Thursday 16 February 2006 20:26, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Thursday 16 February 2006 15:35, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I think on "make install" the cmake files located under
> > kdelibs/cmake/modules/ should be installed somewhere to a KDE directory
> > so that they can be reused when building other KDE stuff (...kdebase).
> >
> > Although probably most of the files located there will be moved back into
> > cmake cvs once they matured a bit more, some will stay in kde svn, e.g.
> > the FindKDE4.cmake and KDE4Macros.cmake files.
> > So, where should they be installed to ?
> >
> > <kdedir>/share/apps/cmake/modules,
> > <kdedir>/share/cmake/modules,
> >
> > something else ?
> >
> > I'd probably go with share/cmake/modules/, since cmake install its own
> > files usually also to share/CMake/Modules/.
> >
> > What do you think ?
>
> I think we shouldn't install them at all. we don't install anything from
> admin, why should cmake be any different?

Well, you answered your own question. :)

> Why do we even have to have the cmake modules in kdelibs? Why can't they be
> in a kde-buildsystem package?

This would be my dream.  That way 3rd party developers don't have to 
distribute whatever our /admin turns out to be with their KDE 4 source, they 
could just say, "make sure to have kde-buildsystem 4.0.foo". ;)

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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