Review Request 114904: Remove KDE4 magic from _SET_FANCY in KDEInstallDirs.cmake

[Alex Merry]

> On Jan. 7, 2014, 9:43 p.m., Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > The motivation was that if somebody had set up carefully his install dirs for kdelibs, he simply wanted to point a following project to the same CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX, and have all the other install dirs automatically use the same locations as the installed kdelibs.
> > Somebody, or maybe several people, requested this back then, I don't remember right now where or who it was.
> >

OK, thanks for the info.  I reckon this doesn't make much sense any more, given we have multiple tier1 frameworks.  About the best we could do is maybe follow Qt's layout, but I suspect that isn't worth it (if Qt even gives us all the necessary information).


- Alex


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On Jan. 7, 2014, 9:18 p.m., Alex Merry wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 7, 2014, 9:18 p.m.)
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> Review request for Build System and KDE Frameworks.
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> Repository: extra-cmake-modules
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> Description
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> Remove KDE4 magic from _SET_FANCY in KDEInstallDirs.cmake
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> This appears to be a hangover from the KDE4 days, which would adjust
> certain paths to match the ones for kdelibs if you installed an
> application to the same prefix as kdelibs.  This was probably to make
> KStandardDirs work properly in unusual setups.
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> Diffs
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>   kde-modules/KDEInstallDirs.cmake 838a52384b7cbfc84c5bd02c2f40f027f36db169 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/114904/diff/
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> Testing
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> CMake runs fine on KCoreAddons (clean build dir), and only the install prefix variable I set on the command line (CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX) is in the cache.
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> Thanks,
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> Alex Merry
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