Re: cmake radical proposal

[David Holland <dholland-pkgtech%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 11, 2021 at 09:26:01PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
 > It seems that we are asking cmake not to add RPATH by the normal cmake
 > mechanisms, and then passing in LDFLAGS with -Wl,-R/usr/pkg/lib.  I am
 > not sure but this seems to clash with cmake's scheme for having tests
 > use in-tree libs.
 > 
 > So I have a tentative belief that we should
 > 
 >   stop trying to pass -R
 >   let cmake do what it wants with RPATH
 > 
 > Could anyone who understands or feels responsible for cmake comment on
 > that?

My guess is that this will cause it to do nothing, as that's the Linux
way, and then things won't work. This is what seems to happen in
general for me outside pkgsrc, anyhow.

but I don't claim to understand cmake...


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