introduce pkg-config files

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 25.10.10 20:21:43, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> > Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > On 25.10.10 12:56:25, Allen Winter wrote:
> > > > On Monday 25 October 2010 12:29:42 pm Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> > > > > Allen Winter wrote:
> > > > > > Adding the KDE Buildsystem to this discussion..
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > My only concern is that pkg-config files are typically installed
> > > > > > in locations (like /usr or /usr/local) where the regular user
> > > > > > doesn't have write-access. Thereby causing problems when
> > > > > > installing KDE as a regular user.
> > > > > 
> > > > > When you install an autotools package to /home/user/prefix, it
> > > > > installs pkg- config files to /home/user/prefix/lib/pkgconfig.
> > > > > Then you need export PKG_CONFIG_PATH to inform pkg-config about
> > > > > this location.
> > > > 
> > > > okey, good.
> > > > then the kde pkg-config files would be installed in
> > > > CMAKE_PREFIX_INSTALL/lib/pkgconfig, I guess.
> > > > 
> > > > cool.
> > > > 
> > > > then I can't think of any other objections.
> > > 
> > > The only thing I can think of is that it duplicates information at
> > > least for kdepimlibs and kdebase. Those two modules already install
> > > the cmake config files which (should) contain the same information.
> > > Wether or not that is/should be blocking the addition of pc-files I
> > > don't know.
> > 
> > The easiest ways would be to simply drag in the pkg-config stuff using
> > pkg_check_modules from FindPkgConfig I guess.
> 
> Thats 'the other thing', i.e. use pkg-config files from cmake and we
> already have pretty clear rules for that as Alex just answered. Whereas
> as far as I understood the original mail is about generating and
> installing .pc files from KDE libraries. That would allow projects that
> don't want to use cmake (for whatever reasons) to use pkg-config to find
> the kde libraries.

Sure. But why not simply use those files from the CMake files we install?

Eike
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