Thanks. That is helpful. I'm not in a position to act on this right now. But you've given me several ideas for improvement.
On October 21, 2015 7:26:29 PM GMT+05:30, Joachim Wuttke <j.wut...@fz-juelich.de> wrote: >> Given that, can you restate what problem you encountered using the >package? > >Somehow I discovered that there is a libgtest-dev in Debian, and a >FindGTest in cmake. So I installed libgtest-dev on my system, removed >ThirdParty/gtest from my project, changed CMakeList.txt files, tried >to rebuild the project, saw that FindGTest did not find the library, >investigated the problem, and finally discovered that libgtest-dev >is deceptive in that it does not pull in the binary without which >it is useless. > >Therefore I consider the current state of affairs as untenable, >which is also attested by the high number of views of the >discussion thread at >http://askubuntu.com/questions/145887/why-no-library-files-installed-for-google-test. > >A clear word about the missing dependency on the nonexistent >library package in the description of libgtest-dev would have had >the potential of saving me considerable time. I do not insist that >it be labelled »warning«. > >- Joachim -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.
