[cmake-developers] FindPackageCheckArchLinuxSymlinks branch on stage

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 28 January 2013, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Friday 25 January 2013, Brad King wrote:
> >> On 01/25/2013 03:24 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> >> > On Friday 25 January 2013, Brad King wrote:
> >> >> On 01/25/2013 05:14 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> >> >>> Are INSTALL(EXPORT)ed files affected at all by this? Do they need to
> >> >>> be?
> >> >> 
> >> >> Yes, since they compute paths relative to their location in order
> >> >> to be relocatable.  The code that generates them may need to be
> >> >> made aware of this.
> >> > 
> >> > I don't think so.
> >> > These file should be installed into lib/, so even if lib/ is a
> >> > symlink, the relative path from the targets file to the library does
> >> > not cross the symlink.
> >> 
> >> What if an executable target installed to bin/ is exported in the
> >> targets file?
> > 
> > Right.
> 
> It looks like you merged your patch to next, but didn't account for this
> part. I recommend doing something similar to what you did for the macro to
> manipulate the _IMPORT_PREFIX in export files. Wait for my fix-relocatable-
> include-dirs topic to be merged first though.

I thought that's your part, since you're working on the target stuff a lot :-)

Alex