[cmake-developers] How should Mac frameworks work?

[Stephen Kelly]

Clinton Stimpson wrote:

> 
> This change hasn't been released yet and will go into CMake 2.8.12.

Ah, I see. I was mis-reading my gitk. 
 
> If Qt were to put multiple versions of libraries into one framework, then
> I think the IMPORTED_LOCATION should be more specific.
 
The issue is more about cmake using the correct -F and --framework flags for 
the Qt frameworks. As Qt includes are no longer installed to $prefix/include 
in the 5.1.0 RC2 (pending temporary reversal https://codereview.qt-project.org/#change,60232 ), and as there is no QtCore directory containing 
a QObject header, lines like 

 #include <QtCore/QObject>

are expected to behave in the standard way appropriate for frameworks, which 
I understand to mean:

 * Use -F to specify paths to look for frameworks
 * Compile with --framework QtCore
 * Look in $something/QtCore.framework/Headers for QObject to include

That means that CMake is expected to generate a buildsystem which contains 
those -F and --framework flags, if I've understood everything.

As far as I understand, that is not the case currently when trying to use 
CMake with the with the Qt frameworks (feel free to try the RC2 and hack 
around with the Config files).

Thanks,

Steve.