[CMake] SDL_LIBRARY_TEMP

Brandon J. Van Every bvanevery at gmail.com
Wed Sep 13 01:34:35 EDT 2006


E. Wing wrote:
>
> I invented SDL_LIBRARY_TEMP as a private hidden variable that I could
> manipulate as needed. The problem I encountered with using SDL_LIBRARY
> was that once it was seet by FIND_LIBRARY, any changes I made to it
> were never reflected in the ccmake GUI. Even though I changed the
> string, it only showed the original set value. This annoys me very
> much. So the work-around was to manipulate private variables, and in
> one shot, set SDL_LIBRARY at the very end so its value in the GUI
> reflected the correct value.
>
> This all used to work for me, but I haven't tried it in Windows
> recently with the newest versions of CMake and SDL. But if there is a
> cleaner way to pull this all off that doesn't break CMake, I would
> like to know about it.

I'm afraid I don't have the time to look at this problem or offer 
solutions to this.  I've filed a bug, #3765, and included the above comment.


Cheers,
Brandon



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