kdeexamples buildsystem

[Michael Jansen]

On Thursday 14 July 2011 20:58:07 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Hi Mike,
> 
> On Thursday 14 July 2011, Michael Jansen wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > I just had a look at the HowToInstallALibrary example and have some
> > questions.
> 
> thanks for having a look over the stuff.
> 
> > 1. Why on earth does the example introduce LIB_INSTALL_DIR_SUFFIX instead
> > of LIB_SUFFIX. I am fighting quite a uphill battle in non kde projects to
> > consider LIB_SUFFIX the standard and to just use it for the least surprise
> > of a user?
> 
> I don't have a strong opinion on this.
> I named it "LIB_INSTALL_DIR_SUFFIX" here because it is more explicit about
> the meaning, and to show that you can actually name it in your project as
> you want to, i.e. this is not something given by cmake.

Yes ... and this i consider the biggest drawback of cmake (no idea if autoconf 
was better btw.). It has no real support for 32/46bit development env in 
parallel. Everything it does around that is half hearted and incosequent.

Gimme some time. I will setup some kind of testing for it to show the problems 
(or the way to make it so it is no problem).

Mike