[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015631]: CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH missing documentation for multiple paths list separator

Thu Jun 25 05:34:34 EDT 2015

The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=15631 
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Reported By:                trsystran
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15631
Category:                   Documentation
Reproducibility:            have not tried
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-06-25 05:34 EDT
Last Modified:              2015-06-25 05:34 EDT
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Summary:                    CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH missing documentation for multiple
paths list separator
Description: 
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.2/variable/CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH.html
This doesn't even mention the fact that it accepts multiple paths.
In practice it requires a cmake list, ie ";" as separator. This is not
documented here.

Same for CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH, CMAKE_INCLUDE_PATH, CMAKE_PROGRAM_PATH.

http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.2/command/find_path.html & other hints that
CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH is a list, but not for the others.

http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_Useful_Variables#Environment_Variables is the
only one documenting that they are lists, and that others than PREFIX are
platform dependent lists (linux: with ":"), which hints that CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH
is a cmake list with ";".
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Issue History 
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2015-06-25 05:34 trsystran      New Issue                                    
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