invitation: try compiling kdelibs using cmake

[William A. Hoffman]

At 02:50 PM 1/27/2006, Benjamin Reed wrote:
>On 1/27/06, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> wrote:
>> With link_directories() you can add directories which will be used when
>> linking, i.e. link_directories(/usr/fink/) would add a "-L/usr/fink" to the
>> command line.
>>
>> This doesn't help for the cmake scripts (modules) which try to find packages.
>> There you have two chances:
>> 1) Add your directory in the FindFoo.cmake file to the find_package()
>> commands. Since it won't exist on other platforms this isn't a problem for
>> these other platforms.
>> 2) Recently there was a discussion on the cmake list about making standard
>> search paths configurable via variables. I don't know if this has already
>> been implemented. Bill ?
>
>Yeah, I'm looking for cmake equivalents to --with-extra-includes and
>--with-extra-libs in old-style KDE builds.  On my Mac OS X
>environment, all of my external dependencies come from fink, which are
>in /sw/include and /sw/lib.
>____


There are currently environment variables for this:

CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH
CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH

-Bill