[CMake] find_file/find_path recursive

[James Bigler]

Perhaps you could use file(GLOB_RECURSE).

            file(GLOB_RECURSE variable [RELATIVE path]
                 [FOLLOW_SYMLINKS] [globbing expressions]...)

See manual for the "file" command.

James

On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 4:36 AM, Pablo Yanez Trujillo <
shaoran at sakuranohana.org> wrote:

> Hi
>
> I've already read the online documentation but I don't find anything
> about it. I'm want to use 'find_path'. I only have the installation
> prefix of a project and I would want to search recursively in this
> directory. I've thought of something like that:
>
> set(ABC_INSTALL_PREFIX "" CACHE PATH "Install Prefix of abc project")
>
> find_path(ABC_PACKAGE_FILE abc-config.cmake PATHS ${ABC_INSTALL_PREFIX}
> NO_DEFAULT_PATH)
>
> if(NOT ${ABC_PACKAGE_FILE})
>  message(FATAL_ERROR "Could not find abc-config.cmake. Set
> ABC_INSTALL_PREFIX properly.")
> endif()
>
> set(abc_DIR ${ABC_PACKAGE_FILE})
> find_package(abc)
>
> but this only works when the abc-config.cmake file is stored in
> ${ABC_INSTALL_PREFIX}. This is not the case, hence I would want to
> search for it recursively in ${ABC_INSTALL_PREFIX}, but I don't know how
> to manage it.
>
> Is it actually posible to search recursively with find_path?
>
> Pablo
>
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