[CMake] FIND_PROGRAM w/ CMake 2.8.2 and Cygwin

[marco atzeri]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Emmanuel Blot  wrote:
> Hello All,
>
> I've just bumped into an issue with Cygwin.
>
> I have not compiled with CMake and Cygwin for a while, so I'm not sure
> where the problem comes from (Cygwin, CMake, or the combination of
> both).
>
> The following command used to work on all platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, Cygwin):
>  FIND_PROGRAM (xcc arm-eabi-gcc)
> but now, with Cygwin, the command fails to locate the executable which
> is in the path indeed.
>
> IF I had the Windows executable suffix (.exe), it works:
>  FIND_PROGRAM (xcc arm-eabi-gcc.exe)
> Obviously, the "fix" is not portable and will break on any non-Windows platform.
>
> Some questions:
>
> 1/ Is this a known issue / new regression?
>  I have not been subscribed to the ML for a while, and I can't find a
> decent way to search through the ML archives,
> http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/ does not offer a search

use gmane for the search
http://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.user


> function. Sorry if the question has already been answered (let me know
> if it is)
> 2/ What is the best way to circumvent this issue?
> 3/ Am I missing something obvious?
>
> Note: "CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX" is defined to the empty string on
> CMake 2.8.2/Cygwin, which seems wrong as well.
>
> Cheers,
> Manu

in the past Yaakov proposed several changes for cygwin and

SET(CMAKE_EXECUTABLE_SUFFIX ".exe")
is present in its proposal.

http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=10122

I presume next 2.8.4 will cover it

Marco