On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 09:27:06AM +0200, Arjen Markus wrote: > Hello, > > I am chiming in very late in this discussion (we had a very long weekend > off in my little country at the sea and I did not feel very motivated > to read my e-mail for a variety of reasons), but my idea is this: > Rather than let CMake find out everything it needs to about what > version of Tcl to use, why not let a small Tcl script do the job? > Tcl offers enough introspection to make that happen. > > Here is a sketch: > - The current FindTcl.cmake file is fine, as far as looking for tclsh > is concerned (possibly modulo a specific tclsh that you want used). > - It can then start that particular tclsh with a script that will > report what libraries that tclsh shell uses > > (I have something of that kind already, though it will need to be > adapted for this purpose)
Yes! In my opinion this is exactly what cmake should do. The user only has to ensure that the correct tclsh is in the path and then everything else is automatically found. With this is should be impossible to get the wrong versions of libraries or headers. Why this wasn't done in the first place I don't know. The only down side of relying on actually running an executable is that it doesn't work for cross-compilation, but in this case you expect to have to do a bit more work. Perhaps using the current approach as a fall-back is the way to go? Andrew ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Plplot-devel mailing list Plplot-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/plplot-devel
