[CMake] Interresting dependency problem

[Hendrik Sattler]

Am Freitag 28 September 2007 schrieb 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.

And with a cmake centric solution, you create yet another dead-end unless you 
propose cmake as the ultimate and only valid solution. If pkgconfig does not 
currently cope well with plain win32, why did nobody bother to fix it instead 
of damning it? At least it is a build-system-independent solution.

HS