[Cmake] Feature Request

[Hans J. Johnson]

Hello,

I have a minor feature request for CMake.    In the hard coded paths for 
the "Find*" files in share/CMake/Modules/
could a path that is prefixed with the ${CMAKE_ROOT} be added?  

I call /usr/local the "System's local" and ${HOME}/local my "personal 
local" directory structures.

The "Find*" files assume that the everything is installed in the Systems 
local, but in my case, I do not have access to /usr/local.  I do, 
however, have access to my personal local which is where I install all 
of my code.  All autoconf'ed packages (i.e. fltk, and cmake itself) are 
compiled with the --prefix=$(HOME)/local.  It would be nice if cmake had 
the additional rule that if the desired packages are not found in 
/usr/local/ or H:/usr/local that you look in ${CMAKE_ROOT} (which in my 
case is my personal local directory).


I think that the use of a personal local directory is a common strategy, 
and it would be a nice feature.  If you are really ambitious, you may 
even want to add a ./configure flag like 
--additional-find-directories="/my/very/own/install/path".

Right now I just run all the "Find*" files through sed replacing 
/usr/local with ${HOME}/local, and it works quite well.

-- 
Regards,
Hans

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Hans J. Johnson                                        305 MEB
hans-johnson at uiowa.edu                                 Dept. of Psychiatry
http://moniz.psychiatry.uiowa.edu/~hjohnson            The University of Iowa
(319) 353-5593                                         Iowa City, IA 52242
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