[cmake-developers] [CMake 0012442]: find_library iterates through paths before names

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12442 
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Reported By:                khusmann
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   12442
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2011-09-02 16:20 EDT
Last Modified:              2011-09-02 16:20 EDT
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Summary:                    find_library iterates through paths before names
Description: 
find_library will check all the paths in its search before moving to the next
name to check. I would expect it to work the opposite way: checking all the
names before it moves to the next path. If the former detection scheme is
intentional, it should be specified in the documentation.

Steps to Reproduce: 
Given a CMakeLists:
cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8)
find_library(foo NAMES boost_system-mt boost_system HINTS /packages/boost/lib)
message(STATUS ${foo})

And if the following files exist:
/packages/boost/lib/libboost_system.so
/usr/lib/libboost_system-mt.so

It will find /usr/lib/libbost_system-mt.so instead of
/packages/boost/lib/libboost_system.so as I would expect. (Because the
directories in HINTS should be completely searched before system directories
are)
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2011-09-02 16:20 khusmann       New Issue                                    
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