[ft-devel] CMake build system: some proposed changes

[Nikolaus Waxweiler]

Hi list,
I've been looking at some CMake issues filed over at Savannah. One ting 
that pops up in a few places is that some people do not expect CMake to 
autodetect external dependencies, which can lead to problems when e.g. 
baking packages for distribution.

I don't have a strong opinion on this and tried to find "best 
practices" on this in the CMake world, but didn't get much of anything 
resembling, well, anything useful. Maybe it's just the CMake world 
being as anarchic as usual. Or maybe I didn't put in enough effort.

My idea: implement knobs for all (?) ON/OFF options listed in 
ftoptions.h and make their default state mirror the default state in 
ftoptions.h. This would also mean external dependencies are off by 
default. I will not change the default build system. The idea is that 
you configure freetype2 the "idiomatic" CMake way, instead of fiddling 
with ftoption.h yourself.

Anyone opposed to this?