[cmake-developers] [PATCH] Allow LIB_SUFFIX be used as find path

[Steven Newbury]

On Sun, 2017-02-26 at 19:04 +0100, Christian Schmidbauer wrote:
> I don't think our patches will be mutually exclusive.
Agreed.

>  If I understand
> you correctly, you are trying to make x32 auto-detectable, hence make
> it work "out of the box". I like the idea and I also tried x32
> auto-detection in the past, but it seemed to me that the
> infrastructure does not support it very well. I also don't think that
> enough people use x32 to justify putting many working hours into it.
> 
I seem to have it working.  I need to expand the tests to cover it
before I send a patch.  I've been hopeful for a long time more people
will try x32 if the key infrastructure and applications are in place. 
Clearly you recognise some of the benefits!

> My approach of this patch on the other hand is much more general in
> nature: I am trying to support any lib<qual>, as defined in [1]. This
> allows cmake to be used in environments which have more specific
> requirements. Hence it overwrites the default heuristic, which is
> usually wrong in such environments. The x32 ABI is just one scenario
> where you could apply this overwrite.
> 
> [1] http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/FHS_3.0/fhs/ch03s10.html
> 

I wasn't intending to imply otherwise, I'd just like to see x32 treated
as a existent thing by critical infrastructure components.
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