[CMake] FindPythonLibs.cmake
Bill Hoffman
bill.hoffman at kitware.com
Tue Feb 12 13:48:26 EST 2008
Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Tuesday 12 February 2008, clinton at elemtech.com wrote:
>> Anyone know why FindPythonLibs.cmake in CVS adds a custom target?
>> In Visual Studio, it shows up as a project (__FindPythonLibsHelper) and it
>> appears to do nothing.
>
> Yes, it is a helper target which helps with building python modules,
> especially in the static case.
> Maybe it could be replaced with a global property.
> The idea is to do something exactly when the file is included the first time,
> independent from the directory where it is used, so variables don't work.
>
Targets should not be used for this type of thing. They actually show
up in IDE's like Xcode and Visual Studio.
-Bill
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