sitter added a comment.
Sure, don't take my bubbling to mean that I object to the diff. I'm just musing on it's long-term necessity When I dump the variables created by the initial PKG_CHECK_MODULES call in the finder they do have the requirements in the LIBRARIES and INCLUDES. So in point of fact I guess the entire finder is doing it wrong to begin with? ^^ The reason it needs to reimplement the entire dependency lookup is because it uses the variables incorrectly. Out of the retrieved data from pkgconfig it constructs find_ calls of which (I guess) the find_path for includes is entirely moot because PC_GTK3_INCLUDE_DIRS is complete already, and the find_library call should loop over the names in PC_GTK3_LIBRARIES and find them. Actually I'm also right now looking at the FindPkgConfig and it looks like it has a IMPORTED_TARGET since 3.6, so if we were to bump the cmake requirements of plasma the entire finder could be shrunk down to the imported targets option which internally will cause findpkgconfig to do the find_library dance *and* set up neat targets we can use from the outside. -- PC_GTK3_CFLAGS=-pthread;-I/usr/include/gtk-3.0;-I/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0;-I/usr/include/at-spi-2.0;-I/usr/include/dbus-1.0;-I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include;-I/usr/include/gtk-3.0;-I/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/;-I/usr/include/cairo;-I/usr/include/pango-1.0;-I/usr/include/harfbuzz;-I/usr/include/pango-1.0;-I/usr/include/atk-1.0;-I/usr/include/cairo;-I/usr/include/pixman-1;-I/usr/include/freetype2;-I/usr/include/libpng16;-I/usr/include/freetype2;-I/usr/include/libpng16;-I/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0;-I/usr/include/libpng16;-I/usr/include/glib-2.0;-I/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -- PC_GTK3_CFLAGS_I= -- PC_GTK3_CFLAGS_OTHER=-pthread -- PC_GTK3_FOUND=1 -- PC_GTK3_INCLUDEDIR=/usr/include -- PC_GTK3_INCLUDE_DIRS=/usr/include/gtk-3.0;/usr/include/at-spi2-atk/2.0;/usr/include/at-spi-2.0;/usr/include/dbus-1.0;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/dbus-1.0/include;/usr/include/gtk-3.0;/usr/include/gio-unix-2.0/;/usr/include/cairo;/usr/include/pango-1.0;/usr/include/harfbuzz;/usr/include/pango-1.0;/usr/include/atk-1.0;/usr/include/cairo;/usr/include/pixman-1;/usr/include/freetype2;/usr/include/libpng16;/usr/include/freetype2;/usr/include/libpng16;/usr/include/gdk-pixbuf-2.0;/usr/include/libpng16;/usr/include/glib-2.0;/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/glib-2.0/include -- PC_GTK3_LDFLAGS=-lgtk-3;-lgdk-3;-lpangocairo-1.0;-lpango-1.0;-latk-1.0;-lcairo-gobject;-lcairo;-lgdk_pixbuf-2.0;-lgio-2.0;-lgobject-2.0;-lglib-2.0 -- PC_GTK3_LDFLAGS_OTHER= -- PC_GTK3_LIBDIR=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu -- PC_GTK3_LIBRARIES=gtk-3;gdk-3;pangocairo-1.0;pango-1.0;atk-1.0;cairo-gobject;cairo;gdk_pixbuf-2.0;gio-2.0;gobject-2.0;glib-2.0 -- PC_GTK3_LIBRARY_DIRS= -- PC_GTK3_LIBS= -- PC_GTK3_LIBS_L= -- PC_GTK3_LIBS_OTHER= -- PC_GTK3_LIBS_PATHS= -- PC_GTK3_PREFIX=/usr That's from the .pc file prefix=/usr exec_prefix=${prefix} libdir=/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu includedir=${prefix}/include targets=x11 broadway wayland gtk_binary_version=3.0.0 gtk_host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu Name: GTK+ Description: GTK+ Graphical UI Library Version: 3.22.30 Requires: gdk-3.0 atk >= 2.15.1 cairo >= 1.14.0 cairo-gobject >= 1.14.0 gdk-pixbuf-2.0 >= 2.30.0 gio-2.0 >= 2.49.4 Requires.private: atk atk-bridge-2.0 wayland-client >= 1.9.91 wayland-protocols >= 1.12 xkbcommon >= 0.2.0 wayland-cursor >= 1.9.91 wayland-egl epoxy >= 1.0 pangoft2 gio-unix-2.0 >= 2.49.4 Libs: -L${libdir} -lgtk-3 Cflags: -I${includedir}/gtk-3.0 ~ REPOSITORY R99 KDE Gtk Configuration Tool REVISION DETAIL https://phabricator.kde.org/D22832 To: arojas, #plasma Cc: apol, sitter, plasma-devel, LeGast00n, jraleigh, fbampaloukas, GB_2, ragreen, Pitel, ZrenBot, himcesjf, lesliezhai, ali-mohamed, jensreuterberg, abetts, sebas, mart