soprano's cmake file

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Thu Jul 23 18:54:05 CEST 2009


On Wednesday 22 July 2009, David Faure wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 July 2009, Christophe Giboudeaux wrote:
> > On Monday 15 June 2009 20:08:14 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > Some general notes:
> > > -modifying CMAKE_MODULE_PATH is only necessary for installed cmake
> > > modules -every installed cmake module (at least from kdelibs) has to be
> > > kept compatible at least until the end of KDE4,
> > > -so in general, we shouldn't install too many such modules
> > > -more specifically, if possible, modules beside kdelibs should not
> > > install such cmake modules, but kdepimlibs is also a "libs" module, so
> > > it is somewhat special
>
> Very interesting - soprano (from kdesupport trunk) installs a
> <prefix>/share/apps/cmake/module/SopranoAddOntology.cmake
> and this runs into the same problems as above:
> if <prefix> is not the kde prefix then the cmake file won't be found by
> include(SopranoAddOntology).

I would actually suggest that FindSoprano.cmake also searches for 
SopranoAddOntology.cmake and if found, includes it automatically. Then 
the "user" doesn't have to put 
include(SopranoAddOntology)
at all.

> A solution is to add the soprano prefix to $KDEDIRS (because
> findkde4internal.cmake adds the paths from KDEDIRS to CMAKE_MODULE_PATH),
> but that seems quite wrong (soprano isn't a kde thing, but a 3rd-party
> thing...).
>
> The soprano prefix is in my CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH already, but cmake doesn't
> know that it should look into /share/apps/cmake/modules in there of course.
> Should FindKDE4Internal.cmake also add those dirs to CMAKE_MODULE_PATH?
>
> Of course one can also export CMAKE_MODULE_PATH but I was hoping for a more
> automated solution, we didn't have to set that var until now.
>
> Yeah I know that I run into more problems than others by having a separate
> install prefix for kdesupport, but well, why not ;)

I do the same, it's good :-)

Alex


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