Buildsystem TODO list

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Tue Aug 23 18:39:33 UTC 2011


On Tuesday 23 August 2011, Michael Jansen wrote:
> On Tuesday, August 23, 2011 07:35:41 PM Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Tuesday 23 August 2011, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > "Yury G.  Kudryashov" <urkud.urkud at gmail.com> writes:
> > > > Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > As far as I understand, the proposed scenario for projects with
> > > > cmake-based
> > > > 
> > > > buildsystem is:
> > > >  * the project itself installs ProjectNameConfig.cmake;
> > > >  * ecm (or cmake) distribute a short FindProject.cmake that calls
> > > > 
> > > > find_package(ProjectName ... NO_MODULE ...)
> > > > 
> > > > One of the examples is kdepimlibs.
> > > 
> > > This could work, but is the second part really necessary? If only
> > > ProjectNameConfig.cmake exists and the application using it does not
> > > have its own FindProjectName.cmake, when it calls
> > > find_package(ProjectName) CMake would find ProjectNameConfig.cmake
> > > anyway.
> > 
> > A nice feature of having a Find-file, even if it only does
> > find_package(NO_MODULE), is that it can contain documentation about
> > provided variables and macros.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > It can also add additional search paths,
> 
> NO WAY ... Everything else i wholeheartily agree. But this? ... NO WAY

Why not ?
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH will still be prefered.
(and when using PATHS instead of HINTS it would be checked after everything 
else)

Alex


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