[CMake] IF(IS_DIRECTORY behaviour
Brad King
brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Jun 26 10:29:40 EDT 2006
David Somers wrote:
> I've been updating a few of my old cmake files (and writing a few new ones
> too)... in a few places I've been adding some IF(IS_DIRECTORY foo) tests.
>
> I just noticed some strange behaviour in cmake-2.4.2:
>
> I'm trying to test to see if directory foo is present in
> ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
>
> IF(IS_DIRECTORY blah)
> ...
> ENDIF(IS_DIRECTORY blah)
>
> does NOT work.
>
> IF(IS_DIRECTORY ./blah)
> ...
> ENDIF(IS_DIRECTORY ./blah)
>
> does work.
>
> This seems wrong (having prefix with "./") Thoughts?
>
> BTW, I assume that IS_DIRECTORY works relative to ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
> unless a path to an absolute dir is given... the help for the IF(IS_DIRECTORY
> command doesn't state this at all :-(
Always use a full path for these options. When running in script mode
(cmake -P) there is no current source dir.
-Brad
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