MantisBT - CMake

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0011541

CMake

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2010-11-30 14:19

2010-12-09 10:40

Reporter

Lauro Moura

Assigned To

Brad King

Priority

normal

Severity

major

Reproducibility

always

Status

closed

Resolution

fixed

Platform

amd64

Ubuntu

OS Version

10.04

Product Version

CMake-2-8

Target Version

Fixed in Version

Summary

0011541: 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.