[CMake] CMakeModules repository at GitHub?

Alan W. Irwin irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca
Thu Mar 28 13:17:06 EDT 2013


On 2013-03-28 12:25-0400 David Cole wrote:

> CMake needs no new Find modules.
>
> All projects should provide a "project config file .cmake script" readable by 
> CMake's find_package, and installed in a location where CMake can find it, so 
> that a CMake find module is completely unnecessary.

Hi David:

Your idea sounds like a good one, but can you recommend an easily understood
project that follows this approach that would serve as a good template
for build-system developers to use when implementing this approach for
their own projects?

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state
implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time
Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting
software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project
(unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net);
and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net).
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