On Tuesday 15 November 2011, Rolf Eike Beer wrote: > Am Dienstag, 15. November 2011, 18:07:16 schrieb Alexander Neundorf: > > But our (KDEs) Windows developer team says that even if pkg-config is > > found under Windows, and even if it reports something, they actively > > want to ignore it. > > > > The reason for this is that for those packages under Windows the user > > decides at install-time where the package will be installed, while the > > pc-files for pkg-config have been generated at build-time with the > > install directory the developer chose at build-time. > > This directory chosen by the developer and hardcoded into the pc-files > > and the actual install directory chosen by the user can very well be > > different. > > > > 5) something else... > > > > Comments ? > > Fix the installers to write the install paths into the .pc files?
While correct, this doesn't help anybody who has to deal with these files now. Alex -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
