Re: cmake prefix buildink question

On Sun, Feb 01, 2026 at 09:48:51PM +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> > Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2026 22:05:47 +0100
> > From: Manuel Bouyer <[email protected]>
> > 
> > I'm trying to build wip/freecad, and it chokes because cad/occt's cmake file
> > includes path to the buildink directory:
> > fgrep .buildlink /usr/pkg/lib/cmake/opencascade/OpenCASCADEVisualizationTargets.cmake 
> >   INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "TKernel;TKMath;X11;fontconfig;/usr/tmp/cad/occt/work/.buildlink/lib/libfreeimage.so;/usr/tmp/cad/occt/work/.buildlink/lib/libfreetype.so"
> >   INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES "TKBRep;TKMath;TKernel;TKService;TKShHealing;TKTopAlgo;TKG2d;TKG3d;TKGeomBase;TKMesh;TKGeomAlgo;TKHLR;GL;X11;/usr/tmp/cad/occt/work/.buildlink/lib/libfreetype.so"
> > 
> > I guess this is because the installed files uses the same value as the one
> > used to build the package.
> > The attached patch works around this, but is there a better way to fix this ?
> 
> I think your approach is the usual one.  See, e.g., x11/libfm-qt for
> a similar example.
> 
> This came up a lot more about a year ago when we started to sanitize
> the paths that cmake looks for, just like we've long done for
> non-cmake build systems, to detect undeclared dependencies that will
> cause trouble later on down the line.  Erstwhile discussion of some of
> the fallout:
> 
> https://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-pkg/2024/12/25/msg030256.html
> 
> Not sure if the INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES issue in particular was
> discussed publicly, might have only been in private mail.  But some
> packages already had this workaround, like textproc/libkolabxml from
> 2021.

Thanks. I updated my patch to match what's done in textproc/libkolabxml.
Running a pbulk again, if it pass I will commit.

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