BIND 10 #1999: detection of googletest

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#1999: detection of googletest
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                   Reporter:  jreed  |                 Owner:
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Comment (by muks):

 Some distributions have switched to a new googletest and provide the
 source code version. Some distributions (including Fedora 17) still
 provide gtest 1.5.0 which is a library. There's no source code.

 Supporting both will result in a very dirty build system patch, as both
 need vastly different approaches. As the _new_ approach simply builds a .a
 of the test program, I strongly suggest that we drop support for the older
 gtest and expect those who build BIND 10 to supply path to a 1.6+ version
 source code. On distributions such as Fedora, this would mean simply
 downloading gtest-1.6.0 from Google's website, extracting it to a
 directory and passing a path to this directory when configuring BIND 10
 (no gtest build would be necessary).

 So, shall we drop support for old shared library versions of gtest?

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