[cmake-developers] [CMake 0011446]: cmake should generate .pc file

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.vtk.org/Bug/view.php?id=11446 
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Reported By:                lesmana
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   11446
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2010-11-11 11:47 EST
Last Modified:              2010-11-11 11:47 EST
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Summary:                    cmake should generate .pc file
Description: 
or alternatively: cmake should generate makefiles which generates a .pc
file

i will try to explain the idea using VTK as example. suppose i have
downloaded and build VTK in the directory ~/VTK-build. i have my own little
project which is using VTK. now the problem is: how do i get the CXXFLAGS
and LDFLAGS for my project to compile using VTK in ~/VTK-build.

if i use cmake for my project i can use:
FIND_PACKAGE(VTK REQUIRED)
INCLUDE(${VTK_USE_FILE})

if i can't or won't use cmake, i could use the pkg-config command to fetch
the CXXFLAGS and LDFLAGS from the prepared .pc file.

read here for more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pkg-config
http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/pkgconfig/index.html

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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2010-11-11 11:47 lesmana        New Issue                                    
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