[CMake] Submitting patches to rely on external libraries for certain platforms

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Wed Aug 9 23:02:36 EDT 2006


On Wednesday 09 August 2006 21:44, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 07:26 PM 8/9/2006, Matt Rogers wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >Would the CMake developers be interested in patches that allows people to
> > use their already installed libraries such as curl, expat, libtar, etc.
> > on certain platforms and fallback to the in-source libraries if they're
> > not installed?
> >
> >Initially, I think this would be great for unix/linux based platforms that
> >generally come with these libraries already installed or very easily
> >available and then can be extended out into the windows world later (when
> > I have information on how to actually do it?
>
> Sorry I don't think we would be interested, and we would like to discourage
> such efforts.  There is the occasional bug fix in the CMake version of
> these libs.   I don't want to be tracking down odd problems on platform X
> and find out at the end of the day it was a curl bug from the platform. 
> Also, I am not sure what you would get out of this.   CMake would build a
> bit fast and use a little bit less disk, but those "C" libraries build
> really quick anyway.
>
> However, I suspect that your motivation comes from your desire to integrate
> CMake into KDevelop which will use the system libraries, or some of its
> own.   If that is the route that we take with the KDevelop CMake
> integration, then we would be more accommodating.
>

okie dokie. no worries. i'm not really concerned from the kdevelop integration 
point of view. It just seemed like a nice thing to do.
--
Matt


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