[cmake-developers] Debugging find_package() search behavior?

[Robert Dailey]

On Tue, Aug 29, 2017 at 9:56 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 08/29/2017 10:55 AM, Brad King wrote:
>> On 08/29/2017 10:48 AM, Robert Dailey wrote:
>>> CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH: E:/code/frontend/msvc_2015/third_party/installed
>>> CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH: E:/code/frontend/msvc_2015/third_party/installed
>>
>> I'm not sure how CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH's path re-rooting interacts with
>> drive letters on Windows.
>
> Oops, sent too soon.
>
> CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH should not be necessary here.  It's for cross-compiling
> to re-root paths like `/usr` into some prefix on the host.
>
> -Brad

Ok but even if I remove that, find_package() still isn't working......