[CMake] Subdirectories and FIND_LIBRARY routines

[Olaf van der Spek]

On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Michael Wild <themiwi at gmail.com> wrote:
> The build_thirdparty macro calls itself other macros, e.g. build_zlib. That one "guesses" the output location of the zlib libraries, creates an IMPORTED library target and sets XXX_LIBRARIES accordingly.
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> The problem of finding the output location of external projects has been discussed quite a few times, and there is only one really clean, although complex and confusing solution: There is one "master" project which only makes calls to ExternalProject_Add, even the main project is build as such an external project.

Isn't the solution to use system libs for zlib?
Building zlib 'privately' seems like a bad work around.

Olaf