frameworks build issues

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Tuesday 22 November 2011, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Jeremy Whiting wrote:
> > Hello all,
> > 
> > I took another crack at the kcolorscheme migration in frameworks
> > branch yesterday, and got it to not depend on KGlobalSettings any
> > longer.  Unfortunately I still get warnings when I run cmake like
> 
> > this:
> There are two issues.
> 
> For one of them I filed a bug against cmake:
> 
> http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12588
> 
> The second issue is that libkgui depends on kdecore, which is not a
> 'framework'. It's premature for libkgui to exist if it depends on kdecore.
> The things that it depends on in kdecore would have to be split out.
> 
> > Should we be using separate branches to work on stuff like this and
> > merge them into frameworks when they build?
> 
> I think that would just complicate things. I think what we actually need is
> more structured efforts. The people who want libkgui to exist need to do
> work on the lower levels before creating it. The things libkgui depends on
> need to be close to their final state (in terms of build and dependencies)
> before libkgui can exist. 

Yes.

...
> macro_bool_to_01 and macro_optional_find_package. This is what 'done' looks
> like and is what we need to aim for for each framework.
> 
> We can enforce this by creating a 'done' folder, and calling
> add_subdirectory(done) in kdelibs.git/CMakeLists.txt as early as possible.
> At least *before* the call to find_package(KDE4Internal REQUIRED).
> 
> This will mean that kdelibs.git/cmake/modules will not be used anymore etc,
> and mean that for a framework to work in the 'done' folder, its cmake stuff
> needs to come from extra-cmake-modules.

Yes. And this is also by far not "done" yet.
Next thing I'll do is implement a scheme how to deal with different cmake 
versions and different projects just wanting some parts of e-c-m.

The find-modules need to be reviewed. I started, but got stuck with the pkg-
config stuff, do or don't.
So I'm currently asking on the cmake list for more general feedback on pkg-
config, especially on Windows and OSX.

Alex