[CMake] for loop won't locate libs

[eial at cs.bgu.ac.il]

On Thu 04 Jun 20:30 2009 Tyler Roscoe wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 08:22:32PM +0300, eial at cs.bgu.ac.il wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu 04 Jun 20:16 2009 Tyler Roscoe wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 07:50:08PM +0300, eial at cs.bgu.ac.il wrote:
> > > > SET(LIBS AR ARMulti ARvideo)
> > > > FOREACH (LIB ${LIBS})
> > > >    SET(FOUND_LIB)
> > > >    FIND_LIBRARY(LIB_FOUND ${LIB} /usr/lib /usr/local/lib) 
> > > >    SET(ARTK_LIBRARY ${ARTK_LIBRARY} ${LIB_FOUND})
> > > > ENDFOREACH(LIB)
> > > > 
> > > > the result is /usr/lib64/libAR.a/usr/lib64/libAR.a/usr/lib64/libAR.a when it should be /usr/lib64/libAR.a /usr/lib64/libARMulti.a /usr/lib64/libARvideo.a
> > > 
> > > What's up with set(FOUND_LIB)?
> > > 
> > > You might be running into a quoting/list expansion problem. Try:
> > > SET(ARTK_LIBRARY "${ARTK_LIBRARY}" "${LIB_FOUND}")
> > > 
> > > or use list(APPEND ...) instead.
> > > 
> > > tyler
> > > 
> > 
> > apparently, FOUND_LIB isn't being cleaned in each loop, that is for cleaning.
> 
> You reference both FOUND_LIB and LIB_FOUND in that snippet, so maybe
> that's what your problem is?
> 
> > my problem is that the loop finds only the first lib's file but not
> > the rest, look at the output result that I've posted.
> 
> I thought the problem was that the libs are all mushed together. I guess
> you have a lot of problems over there.
> 
> tyler
> 

thanks, fixed though that wasn't the cause.
first I want to iterate over the list and find the relevant libs, thats the first priority.