Re: packaging using cmake using external modules

[Felipe Sateler <fsateler@gmail.com>]

Gerber van der Graaf wrote:

> Hi, I am working on the DEB packaging of FreeFOAM
> (http://freefoam.wiki.sourceforge.net/) that uses the CMake building
> system. In order to build some tools for making the output readable in
> Paraview, it uses
> find_package () which searches for a complete building tree of Paraview
> which also includes ParaViewConfig.cmake. Paraview is available in
> Debian, but does not provide ParaViewConfig.cmake.
> 
> Manually building of the Paraview modules in FreeFOAM by pointing to the
> build tree of Paraview works fine. But in order to get DEB packages of
> FreeFOAM, the building will also have to be done automatically, under
> pbuilder for example.
> 
> How to deal with this?
> I already have reported a bug against paraview to include
> ParaViewConfig.cmake, but wonder if that will do the trick.
> 

If ParaViewConfig requires the build tree to successfully report the 
parameters to cmake, then it is broken. Such modules should require an 
_installed_ package, not a build tree.

-- 
Felipe Sateler