[CMake] long library names

[James Bigler]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 August 2007 14:42, James Bigler wrote:
>> When I run FIND_LIBRARY(MYLIB mylib), the value of MYLIB is the full
>> path to mylib (i.e. /home/bigler/lib/libmylib.a).  When I go to link
>> the executable it breaks it up into -L/home/bigler/lib -lmylib.
>>
>> Is there a way to get CMake to put /home/bigler/lib/libmylib.a on the
>> link line instead of breaking it up into path/short name?
> 
> No. Why do you need this, it shouldn't be necessary ?

It is necessary on the Mac.  GCC on Macs will search *all* the library paths for 
a shared version of the library, then search again for a static version.  Since 
a shared version exists in the default path, /usr/lib, no amount of -L/mypath 
will get it to pick the static version unless I specify the static library 
explicitly.

There was another thread about this shared library issue a couple of days ago.

Thanks,
James