[cmake-developers] [CMake 0011541]: find_program resolves symbolic links for paths in $PATH

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=11541 
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Reported By:                Lauro Moura
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   11541
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2010-11-30 14:19 EST
Last Modified:              2010-11-30 14:19 EST
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Summary:                    find_program resolves symbolic links for paths in
$PATH
Description: 
find_program seems to be resolving symbolic links for paths in the default
search path. 

Example: Maemo's Scratchbox links /target/<target-name>/usr to the current
active /usr. using find_program for python will return
/target/<target_name>/usr/bin/python instead of /usr/bin/python, making it
useless to store this information for use by other projects as <target-name> can
change in automatic builds, for example.

Is resolving symbolic links the expected behavior for find_program?

Steps to Reproduce: 
Use find_program to search for a program that is in a symbolic link directory
also present in $PATH.

The returned value will have the source of the link instead of the link.

Additional Information: 
If the directory link is given in the PATHS argument the program is returned
without resolving links.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2010-11-30 14:19 Lauro Moura    New Issue                                    
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