[cmake-developers] Introduction and volunteering for the Matlab package

[Brad King]

On 02/19/2015 11:54 AM, Raffi Enficiaud wrote:
> On the system I am working, matlab in the PATH is a symlink with
> r & x permissions
[snip]
> Is there any internal in the find_program to check what conditions
> are not met?

What are the permissions of the underlying file after resolving
the link?  The find_program command wants "r" permission, and it
always unwraps symlinks.

> you propose to merge the variables MATLAB_USER_ROOT and
> Matlab_ROOT_DIR, is that correct?

Yes.  Furthermore, if we can always compute the other information
from that value then as little of it should be cached as possible.

Thanks,
-Brad