On Sunday 08 January 2012 00:16:33 Darrell Anderson wrote: > > Try to see the reverse of the coin. For distros like > > gentoo, packages are > > splitted. So, if everything are enabled by default, ebuilds > > should disable > > _every_ unneeded stuff, for each package. > > That is how the process should work. Let the downstream packagers handle > what they want. As upstream providers we need to ensure everything works. I won't to argue about this, but I will never agree with it :) However, if someone want to patch cmake files to do this, I will not be against. > > cmake should not try to detect things at any cost. > > Everywhere is possible, is > > used pkgconfig. > > So basically we might still need to use the -DINCLUDE_DIRECTORIES option > should the pkgconfig file be incorrect. > > Will the build halt when I specify -DWITH_SPEEX, don't use > -DINCLUDE_DIRECTORIES, and cmake can't find the speex header files? Actually cmake don't care too much about INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES, will stop anyway if speex.pc doesnt'e exists (I assume that every sane system have this .pc file). > Darrell -- Serghei