FindKdepimLibs.cmake

[Allen Winter]

On Wednesday 30 May 2007 5:56:05 am Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> hi..
> 
> the FindKdepimLibs.cmake module in kdelibs/cmake/modules/ assumes that 
> libsyndication from kdepimlibs will be built if kdepimlibs exists; or at 
> least it unconditionally sets KDE4_SYNDICATION_LIBS. however, libsyndication 
> is an option component of kdepimlibs depending on whether or not Boost is 
> available on the system at build time.
> 
> i assumed that libsyndication not being there would result in 
> KDE4_SYNDICATION_LIBS not being set, but this evidently isn't the case and 
> has, in turn, created an unintentional hard dependency on Boost in kdebase 
> (workspace/plasma/engines/cia.vc, to be exact). i don't particularly like 
> this, and figure the solution is to deal with KDE4_SYNDICATION_LIBS properly 
> in FindKdepimLibs.cmake.
> 
> however, i'm not sure how to implement this in FindKdepimLibs in the most 
> appropriate fashion and am hoping a cmake guru might be able to offer some 
> insight. my guess is that a find_library(KDE4_SYNDICATION_LIBRARY NAMES 
> syndication) is what is necessary, followed by a call to see if 
> ${KDE4_SYNDICATION_LIBRARY} gets set (meaning that libsyndication is there) 
> and then based on that setting KDE4_SYNDICATION_LIBS.
> 
> is that the right approach, is there a better/preferred mechanism?
> 

I don't believe that any libs in kdelibs nor kdepimlibs should be optionally built.
We need to either 1) make boost a hard dependency or 2) copy parts of boost
into kdepimlibs or 3) ??

-Allen