[kexi] [Bug 369232] cmake fails on missing rcc, it's a runtime dep though

[Harald Sitter via KDE Bugzilla]

https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=369232

--- Comment #2 from Harald Sitter <sitter at kde.org> ---
I have to confess I am going a bit TLDR on the response but I think the key
problem is that previously before cmake RUNTIME we didn't have a way to
communicate runtime deps in a *standardized* way. Which means packagers had no
chance to deal with them efficiently. They now do, exactly the way as we do
with other dependencies. If they don't make use of that, then they are just
being bad at their job.

find_package could even be made required and skipped with
CMAKE_DISABLE_FIND_PACKAGE_$NAME  by the packagers. So you get the same end
result but you do it in a standard fashion.

Regardless of any of this. I cannot think of a single packaging environment
where build environment == run environment. The rcc being there at buildtime
doesn't mean anything WRT runtime.
On deb/rpm the rcc would need to be a runtime dep. In snap/flatpak/appimage the
rcc needs to end up in the bundle (which fortunately is the default), same on
other platforms.

You need to assert it as runtime dependency in a standard fashion, everything
else is just wishful thinking.

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