[CMake] Question about CMAKE_MODULE_PATH

Kyle Edwards kyle.edwards at kitware.com
Mon Feb 18 10:54:22 EST 2019


On Mon, 2019-02-18 at 16:50 +0100, Workbench at gmx.at wrote:
> Doesn't the content of CMAKE_MODULE_PATH should also include the path
> to 
> the default modules ??

The default modules are automatically checked by CMake, independently
of the contents of CMAKE_MODULE_PATH. They should not normally be
present in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH.

> > i try to load custom modules. i use
> > 
> > 
> > list(append CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "/mypathtomdoules")

The "append" argument should be uppercase:

list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "/mypathtomodules")

Did you receive any warnings about an invalid argument to list()?

Kyle


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