[CMake] rpath problems with kdevplatform

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 30.06.10 12:07:11, Modestas Vainius wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On trečiadienis 30 Birželis 2010 11:33:07 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > > As I said above it won't affect the install tree.  See the
> > > > > INSTALL_RPATH target property.
> > > > 
> > > > That property is not set (and the global variable CMAKE_INSTALL_RPATH)
> > > > is empty too, nonetheless one project gets rpath info set in the
> > > > installed plugins/executable the other one doesn't.
> > > 
> > > It shouldn't be empty, it is set in FindKDE4Internal.cmake around line 
> 1000:
> > Ah, apparently thats also been patched out by Debian, didn't see that
> > when comparing with the original file...
> > 
> > Re-adding that line does work.
> 
> Yes, I went to extremes a bit disregarding apparent expectations of users 
> installing from source to different prefix. Softened approach (backport from 
> trunk) has not made to the archive yet.
> 
> However, I still think that KDElibs should stick to cmake defaults with 
> respect to RPATH settings giving users freedom to use RPATH or LD_LIBRARY_PATH 
> or /etc/ld.so.conf.d/. CMAKE*RPATH* look like candidates for users to set 
> rather than projects themselves, don't they?

Except that the occassional user of $foo-project has no clue about these
and would have to consult the cmake manpage. And those users also
shouldn't be forced to install into /usr/local either IMHO.

I might agree about not doing this at the kdelibs level, but then it
would've to be duplicated on each module/app... 

Andreas

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