[CMake] [RFC] How to use pkg-config under Windows (... and OSX) ?

[Rolf Eike Beer]

Am Dienstag, 15. November 2011, 18:07:16 schrieb Alexander Neundorf:

> But our (KDEs) Windows developer team says that even if pkg-config is found
> under Windows, and even if it reports something, they actively want to
> ignore it.
> 
> The reason for this is that for those packages under Windows the user
> decides at install-time where the package will be installed, while the
> pc-files for pkg-config have been generated at build-time with the install
> directory the developer chose at build-time.
> This directory chosen by the developer and hardcoded into the pc-files and
> the actual install directory chosen by the user can very well be different.

> 5) something else...
> 
> Comments ?

Fix the installers to write the install paths into the .pc files?

Eike
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