Re: [CMake] RPATH for external library

2017-05-18 Thread Pawel Veselov 
>> > If I understand things correctly, pkg-config does not return the
>> > RPATH-arguments necessary to link with. IOW, if used in a GNU
>> > Makefile you would also need to add these by yourself, right? So
>> > your problem is not a cmake-problem.
>> IMHO it's not fair to say - if it's not supported by GNUmake, it
>> shouldn't be supported by CMake.
> That was not my intention to say. But rather I thought that somewhere
> this problem was already solved, as it is not a cmake-only-problem, but
> a general build problem when using pkg-config on libraries which are not
> in default search-pathes.

Agree.

>> In any case, the CMake documentation says that
>> INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH "...will append directories in the linker
>> search path and outside the project to the INSTALL_RPATH...", there
>> is no statement that it only applies to linker search paths that were
>> supplied in a certain way.
> That applies only to libraries, not the linker-flags which have
> been added behind the back of cmake's library-dependency mechanism.

Right, so it's not all search paths. I would advocate for changing the
documentation so it is clear.

>> [skipped]
> This skipped part was trying to point out a solution based on the -l
> and -L arguments returned by pkg-config and some cmake parsing. It
> wouldn't be beautiful, but it'll work.

Agree. I just didn't have any other comment for that.
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Re: [CMake] RPATH for external library

2017-05-18 Thread Patrick Boettcher 
On Wed, 17 May 2017 17:13:13 -0700
Pawel Veselov  wrote:

> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:55 AM, Patrick Boettcher
> > My reason of preferring pkg-config is
> because it may have all
> >> other kind of stuff in it that the maintainer thought is necessary.
> >> I'd imagine some .pc files export a boatload of flags for all 3
> >> stages, and I rather not ignored them. It is also quite important
> >> when there are chained dependencies.  
> >
> > Understandable.
> >
> > If I understand things correctly, pkg-config does not return the
> > RPATH-arguments necessary to link with. IOW, if used in a GNU
> > Makefile you would also need to add these by yourself, right? So
> > your problem is not a cmake-problem.  
> 
> IMHO it's not fair to say - if it's not supported by GNUmake, it
> shouldn't be supported by CMake.

That was not my intention to say. But rather I thought that somewhere
this problem was already solved, as it is not a cmake-only-problem, but
a general build problem when using pkg-config on libraries which are not
in default search-pathes.
 
> In any case, the CMake documentation says that
> INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH "...will append directories in the linker
> search path and outside the project to the INSTALL_RPATH...", there
> is no statement that it only applies to linker search paths that were
> supplied in a certain way.

That applies only to libraries, not the linker-flags which have
been added behind the back of cmake's library-dependency mechanism. 

> [skipped]

This skipped part was trying to point out a solution based on the -l
and -L arguments returned by pkg-config and some cmake parsing. It
wouldn't be beautiful, but it'll work.

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Re: [CMake] RPATH for external library

2017-05-17 Thread Pawel Veselov 
On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 2:55 AM, Patrick Boettcher
> My reason of preferring pkg-config is
because it may have all
>> other kind of stuff in it that the maintainer thought is necessary.
>> I'd imagine some .pc files export a boatload of flags for all 3
>> stages, and I rather not ignored them. It is also quite important
>> when there are chained dependencies.
>
> Understandable.
>
> If I understand things correctly, pkg-config does not return the
> RPATH-arguments necessary to link with. IOW, if used in a GNU
> Makefile you would also need to add these by yourself, right? So your
> problem is not a cmake-problem.

IMHO it's not fair to say - if it's not supported by GNUmake, it shouldn't
be supported by CMake.

In any case, the CMake documentation says that INSTALL_RPATH_USE_LINK_PATH
"...will append directories in the linker search path and outside the project
to the INSTALL_RPATH...", there is no statement that it only applies to
linker search paths that were supplied in a certain way.

[skipped]
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Re: [CMake] RPATH for external library

2017-05-17 Thread Patrick Boettcher 
On Tue, 16 May 2017 12:32:11 -0700
Pawel Veselov  wrote:

> > I was once in a situation where I could have used pkg-config with a
> > custom path to have pkg-config look for the .pc-file. I then
> > switched to find_library with the custom-path slightly adapted and
> > it worked at least as good as with pkg-config, if not better. For
> > my case.  
> 
> Right. My reason of preferring pkg-config is because it may have all
> other kind of stuff in it that the maintainer thought is necessary.
> I'd imagine some .pc files export a boatload of flags for all 3
> stages, and I rather not ignored them. It is also quite important
> when there are chained dependencies. 

Understandable. 

If I understand things correctly, pkg-config does not return the
RPATH-arguments necessary to link with. IOW, if used in a GNU
Makefile you would also need to add these by yourself, right? So your
problem is not a cmake-problem.

If this is the case, what you're looking for is a macro/script which
transforms -l and -L-arguments to the fully-qualified filename. That
should be doable with a combination of string(SUBSTRING) and
find_library() - if you dare ;-) .

> AFAIU, find_library() is not
> capable of tracking down dependencies.

No, find_library only returns the (complete) filename of a library
found via its arguments.

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Re: [CMake] RPATH for external library

2017-05-16 Thread Pawel Veselov 
On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:09 PM, Patrick Boettcher
 wrote:
> On Tue, 16 May 2017 11:50:47 -0700
> Pawel Veselov  wrote:
>
>> >> I'm trying to make CMake add to the linker RPATH automatically.
>> >> There is a library that is installed in a non-default location.
>> >> I'm discovering the library using PkgConfig (custom
>> >> CMAKE_APPBUNDLE_PATH) and add the library build options to the
>> >> LINK_FLAGS (using set_property).
>> > Instead of setting the LINK_FLAGS to your external library try using
>> > target_link_libraries() with the full path name to the library.
>> That doesn't really play well with FindPkgConfig then. AFAIK, there is
>> no way to ask pkg-config to dish out full libraries paths, one would
>> have to sift through all -l and -L and figure them out...
> Could you switch from pkg-config to find_library() ?

In this case I guess I could. For the record, RPATH kicks in just fine if
adding a module dependency (target-link-libraries pointing to a library
created with add_library)

> I was once in a situation where I could have used pkg-config with a
> custom path to have pkg-config look for the .pc-file. I then switched to
> find_library with the custom-path slightly adapted and it worked at
> least as good as with pkg-config, if not better. For my case.

Right. My reason of preferring pkg-config is because it may have all other
kind of stuff in it that the maintainer thought is necessary. I'd imagine
some .pc files export a boatload of flags for all 3 stages, and I rather not
ignored them. It is also quite important when there are chained dependencies.
AFAIU, find_library() is not capable of tracking down dependencies.
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Re: [CMake] RPATH for external library

2017-05-16 Thread Patrick Boettcher 
On Tue, 16 May 2017 11:50:47 -0700
Pawel Veselov  wrote:

> >> I'm trying to make CMake add to the linker RPATH automatically.
> >> There is a library that is installed in a non-default location.
> >> I'm discovering the library using PkgConfig (custom
> >> CMAKE_APPBUNDLE_PATH) and add the library build options to the
> >> LINK_FLAGS (using set_property).  
> > Instead of setting the LINK_FLAGS to your external library try using
> > target_link_libraries() with the full path name to the library.
> >
> > For example this will work as expected, cmake with set an RPATH
> > to "/path/to":
> >
> >   set(LIB "/path/to/libsomething.so")
> >   target_link_libraries(test1 ${LIB})  
> 
> That doesn't really play well with FindPkgConfig then. AFAIK, there is
> no way to ask pkg-config to dish out full libraries paths, one would
> have to sift through all -l and -L and figure them out...

Could you switch from pkg-config to find_library() ?

I was once in a situation where I could have used pkg-config with a
custom path to have pkg-config look for the .pc-file. I then switched to
find_library with the custom-path slightly adapted and it worked at
least as good as with pkg-config, if not better. For my case.

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Re: [CMake] RPATH for external library

2017-05-16 Thread Pawel Veselov 
>> I'm trying to make CMake add to the linker RPATH automatically.
>> There is a library that is installed in a non-default location.
>> I'm discovering the library using PkgConfig (custom
>> CMAKE_APPBUNDLE_PATH) and add the library build options to the
>> LINK_FLAGS (using set_property).
> Instead of setting the LINK_FLAGS to your external library try using
> target_link_libraries() with the full path name to the library.
>
> For example this will work as expected, cmake with set an RPATH
> to "/path/to":
>
>   set(LIB "/path/to/libsomething.so")
>   target_link_libraries(test1 ${LIB})

That doesn't really play well with FindPkgConfig then. AFAIK, there is
no way to ask pkg-config to dish out full libraries paths, one would
have to sift through all -l and -L and figure them out...

Thank you,
  Pawel.
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Re: [CMake] RPATH for external library

2017-05-16 Thread Patrick Boettcher 
On Mon, 15 May 2017 13:32:15 -0700
Pawel Veselov  wrote:

> Hello.
> 
> I'm trying to make CMake add to the linker RPATH automatically.
> There is a library that is installed in a non-default location.
> I'm discovering the library using PkgConfig (custom
> CMAKE_APPBUNDLE_PATH) and add the library build options to the
> LINK_FLAGS (using set_property).

Instead of setting the LINK_FLAGS to your external library try using
target_link_libraries() with the full path name to the library.

For example this will work as expected, cmake with set an RPATH
to "/path/to":

  set(LIB "/path/to/libsomething.so")
  target_link_libraries(test1 ${LIB})

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