[cmake-developers] find_package config mode search path rule #5 error prone

[Ruslan Baratov]

On 07-May-15 00:00, Tamás Kenéz wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The search path rule #5 reads:
>
>> Search project build trees recently configured in a cmake-gui(1). This can be skipped if
>> NO_CMAKE_BUILDS_PATH is passed. It is intended for the case when a user is building
>> multiple dependent projects one after another. (This step is implemented only on Windows.)
> I think this rule, while having the best intentions, is error prone
> (speaking from experience).
> There are great and proper ways to use the products of a project in a
> dependent project. Opening the project in cmake-gui to expose the
> byproduct of a config-module configuration+installation process in the
> binary dir, is not of them.
>
> What do you think, would it be wise to disable this rule with a new
> policy? Would anybody miss it?
>
> Tamas
Totally agree, since I am a reporter of this bug: 
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=14781
As far as I know it works only for GUI version and only on Windows. So 
does anybody really use such workflow regularly?

Ruslo