[CMake] HINTS vs PATHS

[Ryan Pavlik]

See the documentation for the full explanation of the search order:
http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/cmake-2-8-docs.html#command:find_library

Long story short: Hints get searched before the system paths, and
should only be set by some source of knowledge (location of other
files, etc) and not populated with "guesses" or default locations.
Paths get searched after system locations, and is the place to put
default locations.

Ryan

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 4:23 PM, Serghei Amelian
<serghei.amelian at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello list,
>
> What is the difference between HINTS and PATHS, for example for find_library?
>
> Thanks
>
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> Serghei
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