[cmake-developers] Proposed Feature: automatic search prefixes for find modules

[Chuck Atkins]

Brad and I discussed this a few years ago but nothing really came of it.
Working through several find modules today, I saw many common patterns for
this and realized it should be pretty easy to implement, so here it is:

Allow the variables ENV{PackageName_ROOT} and PackageName_ROOT to be used
as initial search prefixes for al find_{file,path,library,program} commands
executed from within a find module.

https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/796

Specifying the search prefix is a very common pattern, especially when the
utility is not setup in your path, and prevents the need to explicitly set
the location of all the various headers and libraries for a module when you
can just specify a prefix to use.

Thoughts? Good Idea?  Bad idea?  Good, but do it differently?  Undecided?

Thanks
- Chuck
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://public.kitware.com/pipermail/cmake-developers/attachments/20170503/36878c8a/attachment.html>