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List:       kde-buildsystem
Subject:    Re: Getting rid of the LIB_INSTALL_DIR hack on windows
From:       Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date:       2008-01-13 0:25:18
Message-ID: 20080113002518.GA9431 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org
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On 12.01.08 17:42:28, 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++:
> 
> install(
>      FILES
>      ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/GpgmeppConfig.cmake
>      ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/GpgmeppLibraryDepends.cmake
>      DESTINATION
>      ${LIB_INSTALL_DIR}/gpgmepp )

Thats broken in gpgme++ actually. Those .cmake files belong to
<prefix>/share/cmake/modules just the same as other .cmake module files.

Andreas

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