Why do phonon and kdelibs use their own FindQt4.cmake ?

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Sun Oct 9 16:07:58 UTC 2011


On Sunday 09 October 2011, Romain Perier wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I don't understand something, why do phonon and kdelibs use their own
> FindQt4.cmake instead of the one provided by cmake ?
> There is probably a good reason, but I don't understand why.

We need fixes and enhancements in FindQt4.cmake faster than we can depend on 
new released cmake versions. So we have our own copy, which we can update 
whenever needed, instead of having to wait for (a few) months for the next 
cmake release and then forcing every developer to update its cmake.

Alex


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