/usr/local/include in _KDE4_PLATFORM_INCLUDES on FreeBSD?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Wednesday 19 May 2010, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 May 2010 17:09:43 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 May 2010, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 18 May 2010 18:05:37 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > On Saturday 15 May 2010, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > > > On Monday 10 May 2010 19:26:25 Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > > > > On Monday 10 May 2010 19:13:49 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > > > > On Tuesday 11 May 2010, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > > > > > > On Monday 10 May 2010 18:54:31 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > > > > > > On Monday 10 May 2010, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > > > > > > > > Hey there,
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > I was trying to update kdelibs today on FreeBSD and
> > > > > > > > > > noticed nepomuk kept failing to compile because some
> > > > > > > > > > methods were not found in Soprano.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > It turns out kdelibs/nepomuk/query/CMakeLists.txt's
> > > > > > > > > > include_directories() call put KDE4_KDECORE_INCLUDES
> > > > > > > > > > before SOPRANO_INCLUDE_DIR, so my system-wide Soprano
> > > > > > > > > > headers (in /usr/local/include) were being used instead
> > > > > > > > > > of my trunk Soprano headers in $HOME/kde4/include.
> > > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > > Apparently, /usr/local/include was coming from
> > > > > > > > > > _KDE4_PLATFORM_INCLUDE_DIRS.
> > > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > > This must be X11_INCLUDE_DIR. Can you confirm this ?
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > According to what I saw on FindKDE4Internal.cmake yesterday,
> > > > > > > > yes. And yes, X11 is inside /usr/local.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Hmm, we could remove X11_INCLUDE_DIR. One could argue whether
> > > > > > > this would be a bugfix or a potentially source incompatible
> > > > > > > change. But even then, couldn't this also happen with any other
> > > > > > > include dirs used in the "right" order ?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Hmm, you mean if some other dependency was found in /usr/local
> > > > > > and it ended up being included via include_directories() before
> > > > > > $MYLOCALKDEPREFIX? Probably...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > I'm not sure if there's a proper "fix" for this. Why isn't /usr
> > > > > > included by CMake?
> > > > >
> > > > > Ping? :)
> > > >
> > > > Hmm, I think there may be no better solution than to manually take
> > > > care of a good order for the include directories...
> > > > I mean, removing X11_INCLUDE_DIR there would fix this one issue, but
> > > > this can happen for other packages too...
> > >
> > > Yep, that's why I was trying to understand why /usr isn't included by
> > > CMake via include_directories(). Maybe there could be a way for it to
> > > do the same with /usr/local, so that it's always used with a lower
> > > priority than the rest?
> >
> > I guess this is because /usr/include is part of CMAKE_[C|
> > CXX]_IMPLICIT_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES, which is set in
> > cmake/Modules/Platform/UnixPaths.cmake.
> > Maybe the compiler/gcc could be queried instead so the list is built
> > dynamically. This is done now already for the Eclipse generator, see
> > cmake/Modules/CMakeFindEclipseCDT4.cmake
> >
> > What do you think about this ?
>
> Looking at CMakeFindEclipseCDT4.cmake, that'd mean querying gcc with -dD,
> right? That sounds good and reasonable IMO.

At the time when UnixPaths.cmake is loaded, the compiler is not yet know. So 
doing this would have to happen at a later point, maybe in 
Modules/Compiler/GNU.cmake (or in FindKDE4Internal.cmake).

Can you try to come up with a patch ?

Alex