On 2007-06-30 08:23+0200 Olivier Delannoy wrote:
Hello,
I am new to the list and I hope the question as not been ask a tousand
time already.
I am writing a library which relies on several others and I would like
to know which is the best practice for converting or integrating the
information provided by the macro PKGCONFIG provided by the
UsePkgConfig module.
UsePkgConfig.cmake is quite limited (it only delivers a tiny subset of what
is possible with pkg-config) and has some well-known bugs which are
difficult to fix without destroying backwards compatibility. The new
FindPkgConfig.cmake (scheduled for inclusion in 2.4.7 and available now as
part of release candidate RC-11 at http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.4/) is far
superior in my experience.
To Bill Hoffman with regard to a possible minor bug in RC-11: Bill, I cannot
find the deprecation message for UsePkgConfig.cmake that we discussed. I
think such a deprecation message guiding the user toward FindPkgConfig.cmake
is worthwhile given the above problems with UsePkgConfig.cmake.
Alan
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Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy,
University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).
Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation
for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
package (plplot.org); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of
Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project
(lbproject.sf.net).
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