>
> AFAIK they are not intended to be installed as compiled code at all.
> You are supposed to bundle them, or otherwise compile them from sources
> along with your project.
>
>
You are correct, apparently they changed their stance on this some time ago
as you can read here:

https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/googletest/docs/FAQ.md#why-is-it-not-recommended-to-install-a-pre-compiled-copy-of-google-test-for-example-into-usrlocal

They also no longer support the autotools scripts that are provided with
the source code as you can read in the README:

https://github.com/google/googletest/blob/master/googletest/README.md#legacy-build-scripts

There are quite some packages depending on them so they can't just be
last-rited. Maybe the best solution is to leave them in their current form
(perhaps update the SRC_URI) and not accepting package updates to 1.8,
instead asking upstream packages that depend on them to include them in
their source distribution.


br,
Mathy