Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2012-01-06 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 29 November 2011, Alexander Neundorf wrote: On Friday 18 November 2011, Patrick Spendrin wrote: Am 18.11.2011 02:02, schrieb Alan W. Irwin: Alex, is it possible your KDE Windows developers who are objecting to pkg-config tried a version from years ago when it did not have all

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-29 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday 18 November 2011, Patrick Spendrin wrote: Am 18.11.2011 02:02, schrieb Alan W. Irwin: Alex, is it possible your KDE Windows developers who are objecting to pkg-config tried a version from years ago when it did not have all these Windows issues sorted out? I suggest you tell them

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-18 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Friday 18 November 2011, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2011-11-17 21:43+0100 Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 21:38:20 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 18:26:08 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: Let's say package Foo (unrelated to KDE, and unrelated

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-18 Thread Patrick Spendrin
Am 18.11.2011 02:02, schrieb Alan W. Irwin: Alex, is it possible your KDE Windows developers who are objecting to pkg-config tried a version from years ago when it did not have all these Windows issues sorted out? I suggest you tell them to investigate again using modern pkg-config. For

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-18 Thread Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas
On Friday 18 November 2011, Alan W. Irwin wrote: On 2011-11-17 21:43+0100 Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 21:38:20 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 18:26:08 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: Let's say package Foo (unrelated to KDE, and unrelated

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-17 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Thursday 17 November 2011, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Alex: On 2011-11-15 18:07+0100 Alexander Neundorf wrote: Hi, cmake ships with a FindPkgConfig.cmake file, which is used by some Find- modules. Also in KDE, we have quite a lot of Find-modules which use FindPkgConfig.cmake.

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-17 Thread David Cole
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 12:26 PM, Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-w...@gmx.net wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2011, Alan W. Irwin wrote: Hi Alex: On 2011-11-15 18:07+0100 Alexander Neundorf wrote: Hi, cmake ships with a FindPkgConfig.cmake file, which is used by some Find- modules.

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-17 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Thursday 17 November 2011, David Cole wrote: ... If a project does something like this (distributes a file with build/install time information in it) but then lets the end user of the binary installation put it wherever they please.. then the that's what I hear from our Windows

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-17 Thread David Cole
On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-w...@gmx.net wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2011, David Cole wrote: ... If a project does something like this (distributes a file with build/install time information in it) but then lets the end user of the binary installation put

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-17 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 14:36:00 schrieb David Cole: On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Alexander Neundorf a.neundorf-w...@gmx.net wrote: On Thursday 17 November 2011, David Cole wrote: ... If a project does something like this (distributes a file with build/install time

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 18:26:08 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: Let's say package Foo (unrelated to KDE, and unrelated to cmake) has been ported from UNIX to Windows, and installs a pkgconfig file. This pkgconfig file is generated at the time when the binary package for Foo is

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-17 Thread Hendrik Sattler
Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 21:38:20 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 18:26:08 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: Let's say package Foo (unrelated to KDE, and unrelated to cmake) has been ported from UNIX to Windows, and installs a pkgconfig file. This pkgconfig

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Alex: On 2011-11-17 18:26+0100 Alexander Neundorf wrote: The [pkg-config Windows] issue is the following: Let's say package Foo (unrelated to KDE, and unrelated to cmake) has been ported from UNIX to Windows, and installs a pkgconfig file. This pkgconfig file is generated at the time when

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-17 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2011-11-17 21:43+0100 Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 21:38:20 schrieb Hendrik Sattler: Am Donnerstag, 17. November 2011, 18:26:08 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: Let's say package Foo (unrelated to KDE, and unrelated to cmake) has been ported from UNIX to Windows, and

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX) ?

2011-11-16 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Hi Alex: On 2011-11-15 18:07+0100 Alexander Neundorf wrote: Hi, cmake ships with a FindPkgConfig.cmake file, which is used by some Find- modules. Also in KDE, we have quite a lot of Find-modules which use FindPkgConfig.cmake. Now, some of them put a if(UNIX) find_package(PkgConfig) endif()

[CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX) ?

2011-11-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
Hi, cmake ships with a FindPkgConfig.cmake file, which is used by some Find- modules. Also in KDE, we have quite a lot of Find-modules which use FindPkgConfig.cmake. Now, some of them put a if(UNIX) find_package(PkgConfig) endif() around it, some use it on all platforms. In theory it

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX) ?

2011-11-15 Thread Rolf Eike Beer
Am Dienstag, 15. November 2011, 18:07:16 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: But our (KDEs) Windows developer team says that even if pkg-config is found under Windows, and even if it reports something, they actively want to ignore it. The reason for this is that for those packages under Windows the

Re: [CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX)?

2011-11-15 Thread Alexander Neundorf
On Tuesday 15 November 2011, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: Am Dienstag, 15. November 2011, 18:07:16 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: But our (KDEs) Windows developer team says that even if pkg-config is found under Windows, and even if it reports something, they actively want to ignore it. The