On 08/15/2018 01:30 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > My dislike against these functions is probably known, and now I would like to > bring this to a new level: I would like to formally deprecate these > functions. > I don't think they serve any useful purpose anymore, given that now even the > pkg-config module can (and does) return absolute paths to the libraries.
What harm does their presence cause? Please ask on the user list to see if people are using them. I suspect they may be used by some projects to link to special runtime libraries when cross-compiling. We'd need to make sure there is a better way for all such use cases before deprecating the commands. -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: https://cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
