[CMake] Bugs in cmake-2.4.6, please solve for 2.4.7

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 09 July 2007 15:22, Hendrik Sattler wrote:
> Am Montag 09 Juli 2007 14:59 schrieb Hendrik Sattler:
> > I am currently writing CMakeLists.txt files for an autotools project.
> > I found several bugs while doing that and I want to share them with you:
>
> The first two issues are already solved in CVS.

Did you check HEAD or the 2.4 branch ?
You can try 2.4.7 RC11 which you can find at http://www.cmake.org/files/v2.4/.

> > 3. install( TARGET foo ..... OPTIONAL ) always builds foo on "make
> > install" although foo is marked as EXCLUDE_FROM_ALL and OPTIONAL should
> > not care if it wasn't already built. Work-around for executables is to
> > use
> > install( PROGRAMS ${foo_EXECUTABLE} ..... OPTIONAL ) instead but that
> > doesn't work for libraries (hint: rpath)
>
> This got even stranger by now, introducing yet another bug:
>   running only "make install" without a prior "make" fails to build a
> static library target dependency.
>
> > 4. I copied FindPkgConfig.cmake to use it with 2.4.6 but it misses one
> > small feature: a variable with the path (relative to CMAKE_INSTALL_PATH)
> > where to install pkgconfig files to. This may have uncommon places
> > although it's usually ${prefix}/share/pkgconfig.
>
> Still there.

Where to install your own pkgconfig files ?
I think you have to decide this yourself, probably in most cases to 
DESTINATION share/pkgconfig/.
Can you please explain a bit more what you'd like to have ?

> > 5. There is absolutely no information about the component stuff. How can
> > I use it or can only cpack do that?
>
> Still there.

AFAICT this is not yet finished/intended for public use.

Alex