introduce pkg-config files

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 25.10.10 12:56:25, Allen Winter wrote:
> > On Monday 25 October 2010 12:29:42 pm Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> > > Allen Winter wrote:
> > > > Adding the KDE Buildsystem to this discussion..
> > > > 
> > > > My only concern is that pkg-config files are typically installed in
> > > > locations (like /usr or /usr/local) where the regular user doesn't
> > > > have write-access. Thereby causing problems when installing KDE as a
> > > > regular user.
> > > 
> > > When you install an autotools package to /home/user/prefix, it installs
> > > pkg- config files to /home/user/prefix/lib/pkgconfig. Then you need
> > > export PKG_CONFIG_PATH to inform pkg-config about this location.
> > 
> > okey, good.
> > then the kde pkg-config files would be installed in
> > CMAKE_PREFIX_INSTALL/lib/pkgconfig, I guess.
> > 
> > cool.
> > 
> > then I can't think of any other objections.
> 
> The only thing I can think of is that it duplicates information at least
> for kdepimlibs and kdebase. Those two modules already install the cmake
> config files which (should) contain the same information. Wether or not
> that is/should be blocking the addition of pc-files I don't know.

The easiest ways would be to simply drag in the pkg-config stuff using 
pkg_check_modules from FindPkgConfig I guess.

Eike
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