[Cmake] Another gripe about CMake

[Mathieu Mazerolle]

Hi Ken,

I guess what I was trying to say was: "cmake should not crash if I decide to
delete the Modules directory". If I delete math.h, and don't use it, gcc
doesn't crash: the equivalent is not true with CMake in your example.

-- Matt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ken Martin" <ken.martin at kitware.com>
To: "'Mathieu Mazerolle'" <mathieu_mazerolle at hotmail.com>
Cc: <cmake at public.kitware.com>
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 1:58 PM
Subject: RE: [Cmake] Another gripe about CMake


>
>
> > Thanks Ken, that's what I thought. I still think that it is premature
> > place
> > for CMake to do this in the code: What if I don't want to use modules,
> or
> > use them from another location?
>
>
> If you don't want to use modules you simply don't include them in your
> CMakeLists file. Modules are sort of like header files in C code. If you
> don't want to use math.h then you don't include it. No one forces you to
> use math.h in your code. Finding the modules is just used to set the
> CMAKE_ROOT variable which can then be used in your CMakeLists file. For
> example, if you add the following line to a CMakeList file
>
> INCLUDE (${CMAKE_ROOT}/Modules/FindTCL.cmake)
>
> It will include the CMake standard FindTcl module. If you want your own
> FindTcl module then just change the argument to your INCLUDE command to
> be
>
> INCLUDE (${MY_PROJECT_SOURCE_DIR}/MyModules/FindTcl.cmake)
>
> Or
>
> INCLUDE ($ENV{MY_SECRET_MODULES}/FindTcl.cmake)
>
> Etc...
>
>
> Thanks
> Ken
>