Providing FindFoo.cmake for a kde module "foo"

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Sun Jul 8 20:53:19 CEST 2007


On 08.07.07 20:49:23, Ralf Habacker wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat schrieb:
> > On 08.07.07 19:31:49, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >   
> >> On 08.07.07 11:06:32, Matt Rogers wrote:
> >>     
> >>> On Jul 8, 2007, at 9:35 AM, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> >>>       
> >>>> due to a problem (I'd call it a bug actually) in cmake its not  
> >>>> possible
> >>>> to install 2 kde modules where one depends on the other into separate
> >>>> directories (and separate directories from kdelibs). For packaging KDE
> >>>> module's however its needed that each module is installed into its own
> >>>> prefix.
> >>>>         
> >>> You'll need to explain this more clearly. I have no idea what you're  
> >>> talking about. IIRC, all of KDE needs to be installed in the same  
> >>> prefix.
> >>>       
> >> That would be a regression over KDE3 and is not needed at all (there
> >> have recently been some fixes to allow this in the buildsystem).
> >>     
> >
> > Ooops, forgot about the more clearly part :)
> >
> > But during some trials with cmake it turns out that one can tell cmake
> > its CMAKE_MODULE_PATH even providing multiple paths:
> >
> > cmake -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH="/dir1;/dir2"
> >
> > So actually this is a non-issue, except the totally wrong error message:
> >
> > CMake Error: KDevPlatform_DIR is not set.  It must be set to the directory containing KDevPlatformConfig.cmake in order to use KDevPlatform.
> >   
> I have added the following stuff to a new file in 
> <kdelibs-install-dir>/lib/kdevplatform/KDevPlatformConfig.cmake
> 
> if(WIN32)
>     file(TO_CMAKE_PATH "$ENV{ProgramFiles}" ProgramFiles)
>     SET(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH  ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH} 
> ${ProgramFiles}/kdevplatform/share/apps/cmake/modules)
>     find_package(KDevPlatform REQUIRED)
> endif(WIN32)
> 
> which let me configure kdevelop on win32 without any error.

Hmm.... So we could generate that file and install it along with
kdevplatform..

Did you need to add the
-DKDevPlatform_DIR=<kdelibs-install-dir>/lib/kdevplatform/ ?

Andreas

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