On 09/12/2012 03:59 PM, Benjamin Eikel wrote:
> Yes, okay. But in your opinion, do you think version support is worth the 
> test 
> by running an application? I cannot estimate how large the running time of 
> such a find module will increase (compiling and running an application). Is 
> it 
> common to use such a test in find modules? I believe that you have much more 
> experience in using CMake and can give me a suggestion if it should be 
> implemented.

Running an application will not work for cross compiling.
I don't think we have any find modules that actually build
something against the "found" library to detect its version.

If you can't get the version from pkgconfig I think leaving
it off is fine for now.  IMO the upstream should be fixed to
actually provide a meaningful version at compile time.

-Brad
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