Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva wrote:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Bill Hoffman wrote:
Jed Brown wrote:
Thanks Bill. I'm very encouraged by the response this thread has
generated and optimistic that the Find* modules will become more robust
without undue effort by module writers.
Well, it is not going to happen over night, but I think we are closer to a
plan. I am going to update the wiki with the main three ideas of this
thread so it does not get lost.
- Standard FOO_DIR for find modules, but environment and cache. Environment
works like CC and CXX do.
- Add ability to parse compile lines like the ones produced from pkg-config
and turn them into full paths to libraries.
- Add an easy way to create dependent cache variables, that when changed
unset a number of other variables.
A while back I had opened a feature request on the third item:
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7286
I think it is a fairly simple thing to implement if no speed issues
are considered, which I don't think these would be a problem. That is,
save the cache before the configure iteration and check if the entries
listed in the dependencies list have changed. If so, reset the cache
entry.
I'd like that behavior available outside of a find_xxx command as well.
FindQt4.cmake has some manually set cache variables that need to be
considered, some of which interact with other calls to find_xxx.
Clint
_______________________________________________
CMake mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
