[cmake-developers] Making kwsys a proper library

[Orion Poplawski]

On 08/14/2015 08:27 AM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 20:36:55 -0600, Orion Poplawski wrote:
>> There is concern in Fedora that the kwsys code has become too large to
>> be an acceptable copylib.  However, as cmake is constructed at the
>> moment it would be a huge undertaking for the Fedora packagers (mostly
>> me) to remove it downstream.  So I'm asking if there is any support
>> upstream for making kwsys a proper library?
>
> Not right now. The thing is that each library which uses it mangles all
> of the symbols individually by configuring the source files, so without
> rewriting how kwsys is *used* in all of its downstream projects (cmake,
> VTK, ITK, and likely others), kwsys would likely have to be shipped as
> source anyways.

That's certainly what I've found at the moment.

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