OpenAL and SndFile as hard dependency for Granatier

[Raphael Kubo da Costa]

Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> writes:

> On Wednesday 18 May 2011 1:17:33 pm Raphael Kubo da Costa wrote:
>> Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> writes:
>> > Urk! It appears that if you declare a REQUIRED package in a subdirectory
>> > it gets propagated up to the top level and, if the package is missing,
>> > the whole module fails at the CMake configuration stage, i.e. bye bye KDE
>> > Games. If the package is declared as optional, then compilation can fail
>> > in the subdirectory and the build of KDE Games comes to a grinding halt
>> > mid way.
>> 
>> FWIW, I ended up posting a reply to this to kde-commits and
>> kde-buildsystem [1].
>> 
>> [1] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-buildsystem&m=130568651001795&w=2
>> 
> Thanks very much for that, Raphael.  Unfortunately, my knowledge of
> CMake macros and commands is rather hazy and I did not understand
> everything you wrote.  The beta tagging is close and I am in an odd
> timezone (East coast of Australia), which makes communication difficult,
> especially IRC.  So maybe it would be safer for me to leave things as
> I last committed them, rather than get into CMake stuff that is new to me.
>
> Maybe we can refine this during the beta phase?  Should I write to
> you personally?  Or maybe we could meet on the KDE Games list?
> I am sure other subdirs in KDE Games (and their authors) could benefit
> from better CMake programming.

Hi there,

I think this can be refined after the first beta tag, yes.

As for the CMake bits, the best place to discuss them is the
kde-buildsystem mailing list. I'll reply to my own mail there further
explaining my idea.