[CMake] FIND_PROGRAM() behavior

[Bill Spotz]

No.  /sw/bin/python is a symlink to /sw/bin/python2.5, which is an  
executable.  The /sw directory is where, on Darwin, the fink project  
installs software (debian-style) by default.

On Feb 6, 2009, at 12:54 PM, David Cole wrote:

> Is /sw/bin/python a symlink to /usr/bin/python?
>
>
> On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Bill Spotz <wfspotz at sandia.gov>  
> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Because FIND_PACKAGE(PythonInterp) wasn't behaving exactly the way I
> wanted it to, I was playing around with the following (at the very
> beginning of my CMakeLists.txt file):
>
>  FIND_PROGRAM(PYTHON_EXECUTABLE python)
>  MESSAGE("PYTHON_EXECUTABLE is " ${PYTHON_EXECUTABLE})
>  FIND_PROGRAM(SWIG_EXECUTABLE swig)
>  MESSAGE("SWIG_EXECUTABLE is " ${SWIG_EXECUTABLE})
>
> On my system, the following executables exist:
>
>  /sw/bin/python
>  /usr/bin/python
>  /sw/bin/swig
>  /usr/bin/swig
>
> and /sw/bin comes first in my PATH environment variable.  I would
> expect to get the same paths to both python and swig, but I don't.
> Instead, I get the output
>
>  PYTHON_EXECUTABLE is /usr/bin/python
>  SWIG_EXECUTABLE is /sw/bin/swig
>
> I make sure to delete my cache file before running cmake, so I don't
> think it is a caching issue.  Why else might it behave like this?
>
> Thanks

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