[CMake] alternative library names?

[Michael Wild]

On 15. Jul, 2009, at 18:42, Nico Schlömer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm using CMake for a program that links against common libraries  
> which may
> happen to have different names on different architectures (e.g.,  
> libfoobar.a,
> libmyfoobar.a, libyourfoobar.a,...).
>
> Until now I was always searching for libs like this
>
> ================= *snip* =================
> find_library( FOOBAR  foobar  HINTS /possible/path/to/lib/ )
> ================= *snap* =================
>
> but that is obviously restrictive when it comes to the package name.
>
> How would you deal with this is CMake?
>
> Cheers,
> Nico
>


How about this?

find_library( FOOBAR_LIBRARY NAMES foobar myfoobar yourfoobar )


HTH

Michael