[cmake-developers] Exporting dependent library targets in multiple export sets

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Sep 20 07:10:55 EDT 2012


On 09/19/2012 04:14 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Wednesday 19 September 2012, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
>> Hmm, I was almost done implementing it...
>> when creating the export file, we do not know how the Config file will be
>> named, i.e. we do not know the name of the package, so we cannot set
>> <package>_FOUND to FALSE...
>> Am I missing something ?
> 
> cmFindPackage could set a CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_NAME variable, which I could use 
> then...

Okay with me, but target files may not always be loaded from Config
files under find_package.  Some projects may load them in other
contexts.  If CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_NAME or one of the other variables
you need to detect the case is not set then we need to do something
else (error, warning?).

-Brad



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