[PATCH] FindXine: Make version detection work with xine >= 1.2.0.

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 26 January 2012, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> writes:
> > On Thursday 26 January 2012, Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
> >> Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> writes:
> >> > Another idea would be to try_compile() a small binary and turn the
> >> > version numbers into a string by doing this, and the parsing that
> >> > string out of the executable.
> >> > This is what cmake does e.g. for determining the type sizes.
> >> 
> >> I'm fine with either option. Do you prefer the try_compile() version or
> >> can I commit this version?
> > 
> > I'm fine with committing this one.
> > If you have time, you can give the try_compile version a try.
> 
> OK, I'll commit this one for now (looking at CheckTypeSize.cmake, the
> try_compile() version does look a bit overkill -- we'd need to ship a
> FindXine.c, call try_compile() with a lot of arguments, parse the binary
> with a regex and extract the information from it, while the other
> find-modules we ship just look at the header files).

Yeah, you found it :-)
Maybe this can be generalized in some form so it doesn't need an extra file 
for each package.
E.g. a .c.in file where you configure the version numbers in.
It would still be in time for cmake 2.8.8 :-)

Alex