[CMake] Specifying an alternate location for cmake Modules directory

[Micha Hergarden]

On 11/13/2013 11:50 PM, Paul Smith wrote:
> I need to maintain my own copy of the latest cmake, and for multiple
> different target systems (GNU/Linux, MacOS, Windows, Solaris...)
>
> I have a shared location where all tools like this go, so that
> regardless of the system architecture you can access this one location.
> Obviously inside that location are architecture-specific areas for
> binaries, etc.
>
> There is also a common area for files that can be shared, to reduce disk
> usage, copying time, etc.
>
> Since all of the cmake installation with the exception of the binaries
> is identical between the different architectures, I want to share all of
> the installation (for example the Modules directory, etc.)  I can't use
> symlinks.
>
> So what I'd like is a structure something like this:
>
>   .../common/cmake/Modules/...
>
>   .../linux/bin/cmake
>   .../darwin/bin/cmake
>   .../windows/bin/cmake.exe
>   .../sunos/bin/cmake
>
> I can use a wrapper around cmake to set environment variables or pass in
> command line flags to the REAL cmake, if necessary.
>
> Is there any way to convince cmake to look in a different place for
> Modules etc.?
>
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Hello Paul,

For the modules you can use cmake_module_path from within your scripts.

|Regards,
Micha
|
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