[CMake] CMAKE_MODULE_PATH Question

David Cole david.cole at kitware.com
Thu Apr 9 13:17:01 EDT 2009


You are missing a $ :
set( CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake" )


To prepend, use this construct:

set( CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake" ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH})


HTH,
David


On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Robert Dailey <rcdailey at gmail.com> wrote:

> I want to set a couple of custom directories of mine to be searched for
> cmake modules when I use include( foo.cmake ). However, I can't seem to get
> this to work. My code is basically:
> set( CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "{CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake" )
> include( foo.cmake )
>
> This, however, does not work. It says it cannot load the file. Am I doing
> this wrong? Keep in mind that I really want to PREPEND to the
> CMAKE_MODULE_PATH variable, as I only want my custom directories to be
> searched *first*, but I do not want to override the default search path for
> include modules. How can I do this?
>
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