[Rock-dev] Using external libraries without *.pc in pkgconfig

[Sylvain Joyeux]

On 01/16/2012 04:37 PM, Thomas Roehr wrote:
>> I would like to use an external library, that is fetch from the
>> distributor side and than installed by calling make.
>> As there is no *.pc.in file included in the sources nor installed in the
>> 'pkgconfig' folder, the library cannot be found by orogen when building
>> components with 'using_library'.
>> Is there a way that such a library can be used without creating an own
>> *.pc file? If not, is there a way to install such a file afterwards?
> The pc file is required, thus you will have to create a patch.
Not entirely true.

The .pc file is required only if the package defines types that you want 
to put on the component interface. If it is not the case, replace the 
using_library mechanism by detecting the library manually using CMake in 
CMakeLists.txt and/or tasks/CMakeLists.txt.
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