[ANNOUNCE] automoc4 from kdesupport now supported for building KDE

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 29 May 2008, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> On Thursday 29 May 2008, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Wednesday 28 May 2008, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
> > > > Alexander Neundorf schrieb:
> > > > > On Saturday 10 May 2008, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > >> Hi,
> > > > >>
> > > > >> we moved automoc (the tool which does the automoc'ing) to
> > > > >> kdesupport, so it can be used also by non-KDE apps (and maybe be
> > > > >> integrated into cmake).
> > > > >
> > > > > I think we can make automoc from kdesupport required next week, and
> > > > > delete the one from kdelibs.
> > > > > Or is there anything speaking against this ?
> > > >
> > > > Yes, my problem with nmake :)
> > > >
> > > > Any news on this?
> > >
> > > I tried add_custom_target and it won't work in the automoc macros
> > > because there needs to be a dependency from the main target to the
> > > automoc target. And that cannot be added from the automoc macro because
> > > the main target is not defined at this point.
> > >
> > > add_custom_command(TARGET has the same problem.
> > >
> > > It would be possible to use add_custom_target and require the user to
> > > add the dependency between the two targets himself. In the KDE4_ macros
> > > we could do that...

Yes, there it wouldn't be a problem.
Except that it is a bit slower, right ?
Do you think this would be acceptable for other projects ?
I mean it's a bit ugly, a target is created automatically without the 
developer knowing it, and then the developer has to do something with the 
target.
(we have something similar for kdeinit, and this is already not nice).

Alex