[cmake-developers] Kind-of standard way to support also in-project find-modules

[Pau Garcia i Quiles]

On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 11:55 PM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:

> Typically we use code of this form:
>
>  if(FOO_USE_SYSTEM_BAR)
>    find_package(BAR)
>  else()
>    add_subdirectory(bar)
>    set(BAR_INCLUDE_DIRS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/bar/include)
>    set(BAR_LIBRARY_DIRS ...)
>    # ...set rest of variables normally provided by FindBAR.cmake
>  endif()

What about something like this?

if( FOO_USE_LOCAL_BAR)
  set( CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH ${PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/3rdparty )
endif(FOO_USE_LOCAL_BAR)

find_package(BAR)

It searches the local directory first, then goes for system. Looks easier to me.

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Pau Garcia i Quiles
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