[cmake-developers] Exporting dependent library targets in multiple export sets

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 17 September 2012, Brad King wrote:
> On 09/17/2012 03:52 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Monday 17 September 2012, Brad King wrote:
> >> What would you do instead of aborting?  Silently pretend the package
> >> Bar was not found at the current Bar_DIR and move on with the search?
> >> That would require the sandboxing I previously elaborated.  It would
> >> also be confusing to users IMO because the package they know is in
> >> their search path would be skipped for a mysterious reason.
> > 
> > Isn't e.g. FindPNG.cmake doing just the same ?
> > If zlib wasn't found, fail at finding png.
> 
> Okay, so then BarConfig.cmake would set Bar_FOUND to false to pretend
> the package isn't found but not change Bar_DIR?

Something like that.

Alex