Re: CMake support for DragonFly BSD

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:53:49PM -0400, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > The prefix is fully user-settable and the patch ensures
> > that cmake works with dependencies installed via pkgsrc. 
> 
> Can you please explain, I know basically nothing about pkgsrc.

What I mean is: when I build cmake to install to /some/arbitrary/path
via pkgsrc, I expect it to look for normal libraries in the same
location. I would also prefer to keep the list of hard-coded directories
down, but that conflicts with the idea of "work-out-of-the-box on
insane platforms". For X11, pkgsrc knows where to look or which one to
pick up. That can make a difference when you have both native headers
and modular Xorg installed (think SunOS and other older Unix versions).

In general, from the perspective of a package system / distributor, the
less magic it has in this regard, the better. But as I said above, this
conflicts with Joe User installing cmake by hand.

Joerg