[CMake] find_package REQUIRED

Alexander Bubnov alexander.bubnov at gmail.com
Sat Jul 5 07:17:20 EDT 2008


Hello, Miguel!
Many thanks for clarification.

And thank you very much for you job and cmake product.

2008/7/4, Miguel A. Figueroa-Villanueva <miguelf at ieee.org>:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2008 at 10:17 AM, Alexander Bubnov wrote:
>  > Hello!
>  > I am exploring cmake features. Now I have stopped at find_package,
>  > REQUIRED parameter. As I can see from manual:
>  >
>  > "The REQUIRED option stops processing with an
>  >  error  message  if  the  package cannot be found."
>  > (cmake 2.6-patch 0)
>
>
> Hello Alexander,
>
>  The REQUIRED and QUIET options to find_package only set some standard
>  variables that the find module needs to properly handle. It is the
>  responsibility of the module to make use of these correctly.
>
>  Unfortunately, some modules have been there before these
>  standardizations and don't behave accordingly. In any case, you are
>  understanding the docs correctly and I have submitted a bug with a
>  patch that fixes this, which you might want to try:
>
>  http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=7285
>
>  Hope that helps,
>
> --Miguel
>


-- 
/BR, Alexander


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