Getting rid of the LIB_INSTALL_DIR hack on windows

[Ralf Habacker]

Michael Pyne schrieb:
> On Saturday 12 January 2008, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know we discussed this already, but I'm very unhappy with the current
>> solution.
>> The problem is (for all who don't remember) that we want to install the
>> shared libs into /bin on windows. When we install the shared libs into
>> /lib, we've to add an entry to the PATH env variable. Also it's not the
>> normal way to install shared libs in another location than the
>> executable - it would just confuse the user.
>>
>> Because of this a hack for LIB_INSTALL_DIR was added:
>> set(LIB_INSTALL_DIR      "lib${LIB_SUFFIX}"
>>                     RUNTIME DESTINATION "bin"
>>                     LIBRARY DESTINATION "lib${LIB_SUFFIX}"
>>                     ARCHIVE DESTINATION "lib${LIB_SUFFIX}"  )
>>
>> This works fine until someone uses LIB_INSTALL_DIR in another context -
>> e.g. to install additional files, see kdepimlibs/gpgme++:
>> <snip>
>>     
>
>   
>> Therefore I want to change all CMakeLists.txt from
>>
>> install(TARGETS foo DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR} )
>>
>> to
>>
>> install(TARGETS foo RUNTIME DESTINATION ${BIN_IINSTALL_DIR}
>>                     LIBRARY DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}
>>                     ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}
>>         )
>>
>> An additional macro install_kde_library() would work as well.
>>     
>
> I like the macro idea a beeellion times better.  
me too.
> Especially since it documents 
> the intent better (i.e. use this for libraries, not for anything else).
>
> Then we could switch libraries to use install_kde4_library() and leave the 
> rest alone.
>   
Because there are already kde4_... macros, i suggest to use 
kde4_install_library() as macro name


Ralf