add_library NO_PREFIX

Kevin Ottens ervin at kde.org
Thu Nov 29 07:44:01 UTC 2012


On Thursday 29 November 2012 08:37:15 Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Thursday 29 November 2012, Kevin Ottens wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > We currently have kde4_add_plugin calls in our cmake files, they can be
> > replaced with:
> > add_library(foo MODULE ${foo_SRCS})
> > set_target_properties(foo PROPERTIES PREFIX "")
> > 
> > It's not exactly nice API wise, so after discussing with David, he got the
> > idea of an extra option to add_library which automates the properties
> > call,
> > so the attached patch implements support for the following:
> > add_library(foo MODULE NO_PREFIX ${foo_SRCS})
> > 
> > Any comment? Anyone to sponsor that patch in cmake upstream?
> 
> I'd suggest to send this patch to cmake-developers at cmake.org .
> 
> I don't have an opinion on this. (Whether the API is nice or not is a matter
> of taste, and increasing number of things can/has to be set via target
> properties, so from that POV it can be argued that having to set the PREFIX
> property is ok.)

Well, it's also slightly surprising, as I'm used to have modules/plugins come 
with no prefix... Maybe it could be that the default value of PREFIX for the 
MODULE type is "wrong"?

I'm in fact not sure if that's a KDE custom or something you find pervasively. 
What's your opinion on that point? (I'd like to gather some other view before 
sending to the cmake-developers list.

Regards.
-- 
Kévin Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net

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