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Subject: Re: Getting rid of the LIB_INSTALL_DIR hack on windows
From: Ralf Habacker <ralf.habacker () freenet ! de>
Date: 2008-01-12 21:48:07
Message-ID: 47893597.3090509 () freenet ! de
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Michael Pyne schrieb:
> On Saturday 12 January 2008, Christian Ehrlicher wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I know we discussed this already, but I'm very unhappy with the current
>> solution.
>> The problem is (for all who don't remember) that we want to install the
>> shared libs into /bin on windows. When we install the shared libs into
>> /lib, we've to add an entry to the PATH env variable. Also it's not the
>> normal way to install shared libs in another location than the
>> executable - it would just confuse the user.
>>
>> Because of this a hack for LIB_INSTALL_DIR was added:
>> set(LIB_INSTALL_DIR "lib${LIB_SUFFIX}"
>> RUNTIME DESTINATION "bin"
>> LIBRARY DESTINATION "lib${LIB_SUFFIX}"
>> ARCHIVE DESTINATION "lib${LIB_SUFFIX}" )
>>
>> This works fine until someone uses LIB_INSTALL_DIR in another context -
>> e.g. to install additional files, see kdepimlibs/gpgme++:
>> <snip>
>>
>
>
>> Therefore I want to change all CMakeLists.txt from
>>
>> install(TARGETS foo DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR} )
>>
>> to
>>
>> install(TARGETS foo RUNTIME DESTINATION ${BIN_IINSTALL_DIR}
>> LIBRARY DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}
>> ARCHIVE DESTINATION ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}
>> )
>>
>> An additional macro install_kde_library() would work as well.
>>
>
> I like the macro idea a beeellion times better.
me too.
> Especially since it documents
> the intent better (i.e. use this for libraries, not for anything else).
>
> Then we could switch libraries to use install_kde4_library() and leave the
> rest alone.
>
Because there are already kde4_... macros, i suggest to use
kde4_install_library() as macro name
Ralf
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