Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Jonathan Riddell wrote:
>> but cmake files are harder e.g. /usr/lib/cmake/grantlee
>> has files
>> which they will want to be co-installable. cmake docs say they can be
>> installed into a versioned directory e.g. /usr/lib/cmake/grantlee-5 but
>> this needs to be checked and the build system modified.
>
> Which cmake docs say this? This doesn't ring a bell for me.
It's in the normal find_package documentation [0], where it says that CMake
looks for config files in /various/paths/<name>*/ - notice the asterisk. So
this means it should find a GrantleeConfig.cmake in
/usr/lib/cmake/grantlee-5.
It further states that it then will check the *ConfigVersion.cmake file to
find a compatible version - if the requested version is actually supplied
with the find_package call, and if the *ConfigVersion.cmake file actually
exists and checks for compatibility and sets the required variables.
This means that for making this work properly, we need to ensure that
a) our *ConfigVersion.cmake files behave correctly, setting the various
PACKAGE_VERSION* variables properly
b) every find_package() call asks for a version, something like
find_package(Solid ${FRAMEWORKS_VERSION})
Unfortunately, b) would also have to be done for KDE4 so it doesn't pick up
KF5 libraries - although only a handful of libraries seem to use the config
mode of CMake. I'm not very familiar with the KDE4 (or KF5, for that matter)
build systems; wasn't it the case that there was a wrapper macro for
find_package() that could be modified to automagically supply the requested
version?
A short peek into my /usr/lib/cmake tells me that not every KDE4-related
library supplies a *ConfigVersion.cmake file, but those which do seem to be
using write_basic_package_version_file() which does implement a proper
version check. Qt5 also behaves properly. I don't have a KF5 installation on
my box currently, so didn't check those.
Please note that I didn't check if CMake actually behaves like the docs
claim, so I may well be wrong with some of my statements.
Cheers,
~ Sput
[0] http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.12/cmake.html#command:find_package
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