[CMake] checking consistency for the cmake modules: the FOO_FOUND variable
Alexander Neundorf
a.neundorf-work at gmx.net
Tue Jun 17 15:30:23 EDT 2008
Hi,
according to Modules/readme.txt every module should set a FOO_FOUND variable
indicating success or failure.
I tested this with the new FindModulesExeuteAll test and there are some
modules which don't do that. They could be changed so that they do set that
variable.
Question 1): do we actually want to make it a hard requirement that every
module sets this variable ?
2) When should FOO_FOUND be set to TRUE ?
For obvious modules it's obvious (yeah I know...), but there are also modules
which search for multiple components of one package. Should FOO_FOUND be set
to TRUE only if all components have been found ? Or if at least one component
has been found ? Or if COMPONENTS are listed in the FIND_PACKAGE call, only
if all the components listed there have been found ?
3) How should it be named ? UPPERCASEPROJECT_FOUND or MixedCaseProject_FOUND ?
For consistency amd compatibility with (almost) all existing cmake modules
(and I think we also already agreed on that last year) we should go for the
upper case variant.
Alex
P.S. after that we could go on and check for (FOO|Foo)_(INCLUDE_DIR|INCLUDES)
and (FOO|Foo)_(LIBRARIES|LIBS). The modules which don't search a library
would have to be blacklisted (like FindPerlcmake).
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