[CMake] Ability to tell if it is a relative path

[Tristan Carel]

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 23:42, James Bigler <jamesbigler at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is there a way to discover if a path is a relative path or not?
>
> I need to make sure that all paths are absolute for a given application, and
> I can be given either relative or absolute paths to files.  If I'm given a
> relative path I want to prepend ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR} to make it
> absolute, but if it's already absolute, I don't want to add anything.

Hi James,

by grep"ping" `absolute' is the CMake documentation, you find:

if(IS_ABSOLUTE path)
True if the given path is an absolute path.

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