cmake news: RPATH, kdevelop projects, finding kdelibs

[Laurent Montel]

On Thursday 16 March 2006 22:30, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for everybody who is using cmake to compile kde 4 stuff: please consider
> updating to current cmake cvs.
>
> What's new:
>
> I added support for different RPATH handling styles, they are selected by
> setting RPATH_STYLE (either using ccmake or -DRPATH_STYLE=<your_choice>)
> The options are:
>
> "none" - don't use RPATH at all
> When installed, the libs have to be in the system library path
> (ld.so.conf/LD_LIBRARY_PATH)
> To run the executables during the build, simple wrapper shell scripts are
> created which set (DY)LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly.
>
> "install" - (not on OS X)
> Compile with RPATH set to the installation directory, the kde library
> directory and the Qt library directory.
> To run the executables during the build, simple wrapper shell scripts are
> created which set (DY)LD_LIBRARY_PATH accordingly.
>
> "both" - (not on OS X)
> Compile with RPATH set to the build directory, the installation directory,
> the kde library directory and the Qt library directory.
> Executables can simply be run during the build. If both libs, the installed
> and the not-yet-installed ones are available, the not-yet-installed ones
> are prefered. This is probably mostly useful for developers.
>
> "default" or everything else:
> Compile with RPATH set to the builddir, link again when installing and set
> RPATH to the install dir, the kde lib dir and the Qt lib dir.

ok

> I couldn't test, but I hope I got things right so it works on OS X too.
>
> Is there anything I missed ?
>
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>
> Also in kdebase you can now generate kdevelop project files for all
> subprojects by running cmake with -GKDevelop3

Great good news.
I will look at how to add it to all other kde modules (I will look at it 
tomorrow)

> ---------------------------------
>
> In kdelibs/CMakeLists.txt there is now a file KDELibsDependencies.cmake
> created, which lists all dependencies of all libs of kdelibs, and the
> install directories of kdelibs. This file gets installed and is included by
> FindKDE4Internal.cmake when compiling stuff!=kdelibs.
> The install dirs are then used as first choice for finding the kde 4 libs,
> headers and executables.
> Laurent: LIB_KPARTS, LIB_KIO etc. should be removed and instead
> KDE4_KPARTS_LIBRARIES, KDE4_KIO_LIBRARIES etc. should be used. I prepared
> these variables already FindKDE4Internal.cmake . Also "kparts", "kio",
> "kdecore" etc. should not be used directly in modules different from
> kdelibs/, since then the depending libs might be missing. This is "fixed"
> by using KDE4_XXX_LIBRARIES(), they contain everything requried.
> The am2cmake script should be changed accordingly.

Ok but we mustn't change it before new kdelibs snapshot.
I will create a script to change it for next snapshot.
For the moment we must keep old variable.

> Bye
> Alex

Regards