Re: [Plplot-devel] Build system updates for our cairo devices need testing!

2008-01-26 Thread Alan W. Irwin
On 2008-01-25 18:24-0800 Alan W. Irwin wrote: > [...]I have now written the cmake_link_flags macro to convert pkg-config -L > and > -l options to the equivalent absolute pathnames of libraries using the the > appropriate find_library commands. The result (revision 8176) works well on > Linux for

[Plplot-devel] Build system updates for our cairo devices need testing!

2008-01-25 Thread Alan W. Irwin
Experience shows that CMake prefers library information in the form of the absolute pathname of the library rather than the combination of -L and -l options typically delivered by pkg-config and therefore by our CMake pkg_check_pkgconfig macro. If the absolute pathnames are not used, then our CMak