[CMake] Interresting dependency problem

[Brandon Van Every]

On 9/27/07, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> I'm reporting 2nd hand information from people that have long-time
> experience with pkg-config. Unfortunately I can't find the thread on the
> kde lists where Christian Ehrlicher pointed out the other issues with
> pkg-config, maybe I'll have a try with it tomorrow...

Kudos to you for your diligence, but this is a waste of time.  I
looked at the sources today, and it's obvious from the READMEs and
Googling what the level of MSVC support really is.  It's designed
around gcc toolchains and Unix shells.  Have fun coaxing it to work
with MSVC and no Unix shell.  It may be doable, it may not be doable,
but it is certainly not widespread production practice so you're going
to take lumps.  I can't see why any CMake-oriented person would
recommend pkg-config unless they're stuck with it as a legacy concern.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every