[cmake-developers] find PATHS issues on Windows when Linux OS files are accessible

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Oct 14 11:14:00 EDT 2013


On 10/13/2013 7:46 PM, Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> bash.exe-3.1$ ls z:/usr/bin/lua
> z:/usr/bin/lua
[snip]
> -- LUA_EXECUTABLE = /usr/bin/lua
> 
> This is an obviously incorrect result since /usr/bin/lua does
> not exist from the Windows system perspective, i.e.,

It does exist when z: is the current working drive.  This is considered
a feature by some users.  We've fielded bug reports in the past about it
*not* working.

-Brad



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