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0004051CMakeCMakepublic2006-11-20 09:032016-06-10 14:30
ReporterFrederic Heem 
Assigned ToBill Hoffman 
PrioritylowSeverityfeatureReproducibilityalways
StatusclosedResolutionmoved 
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Target VersionFixed in Version 
Summary0004051: integrated pkgconfig
Descriptionpkgconfig is becoming an ad-hoc standard on *NIX for retrieving information about libraries.
However, its usage through cmake is cumbersome:
* the PKG_CONFIG_PATH searching is broken, suppose that PKG_CONFIG_PATH equals to MYPROJECTDIR in order to look for $MYPROJECTDIR/myproject.pc and ONLY $MYPROJECTDIR/myproject.pc. pkgconfig will first search in /usr, which is not what is intended
This problem leads to have separate cases in FindXXX.cmake, the one which uses FIND_INCLUDE, FIND_LIBRARY in case when MYPROJECTDIR is set, and the other case which uses pkgconfig
* pkgconfig returns string with ending line ("\r\n")
* pkgconfig returns include directories with -I, this is not directly understood by cmake
* pkgconfig may return multiple path, e.g -I/opt/include -I/usr/local/include, FIND_INCLUDE doesn't support this
* pkgconfig is not installed by default on windows
* pkgconfig is removing default include directory such as -I/usr/include and default library directory such as -I/usr/local
This makes UsePkgconfig more complicated.
So the request in to include pkgconfig code inside cmake and fixing all issues explained.
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(0006486)
Bill Hoffman (manager)
2007-02-20 16:24

HAve you seen the new FindPkgConfig.cmake in CVS does that do what you want?
(0034320)
Stephen Kelly (developer)
2013-11-02 10:08

Should this be closed?
(0041331)
Kitware Robot (administrator)
2016-06-10 14:27

Resolving issue as `moved`.

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 Issue History
Date Modified Username Field Change
2013-11-02 10:08 Stephen Kelly Note Added: 0034320
2016-06-10 14:27 Kitware Robot Note Added: 0041331
2016-06-10 14:27 Kitware Robot Status assigned => resolved
2016-06-10 14:27 Kitware Robot Resolution open => moved
2016-06-10 14:30 Kitware Robot Status resolved => closed


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