Am Montag, 20. August 2018, 19:10:57 CEST schrieb Brad King: > On 08/15/2018 01:30 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > > My dislike against these functions is probably known, and now I would like > > to bring this to a new level: I would like to formally deprecate these > > functions. I don't think they serve any useful purpose anymore, given > > that now even the pkg-config module can (and does) return absolute paths > > to the libraries. > What harm does their presence cause? > > Please ask on the user list to see if people are using them. > > I suspect they may be used by some projects to link to special runtime > libraries when cross-compiling. We'd need to make sure there is a > better way for all such use cases before deprecating the commands.
I have only seen this commands in failed attempts to convert Makefiles to CMake without using the proper methods of calling find_library(). And then showing up here or in #cmake and complaining that it breaks. So, has anyone an example where these are still needed with CMake 3.12 for anything that _can't_ be done properly? Eike
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