[CMake] CMake 2.8.1 RC 3 is ready to try

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Thu Feb 18 12:06:30 EST 2010


Alan W. Irwin wrote:
> On 2010-02-18 08:14-0500 Brad King wrote:
> 
>> Alan W. Irwin wrote:
>>> Could CMAKE_MODULE_PATH be treated as a colon-separate list of paths
>>> that are
>>> searched one after another?  That would solve the common modules
>>> issue for us.
>>
>> It is already a list:
>>
>>  set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH /some/path /some/other/path)
>>  list(APPEND CMAKE_MODULE_PATH /some/third/path)
> 
> Thanks, Brad, for that information.  That's going to help a lot in the
> language support transition between 2.6.x and 2.8.x.
> 
> The documentation in 2.8.1-RC3 currently says this about CMAKE_MODULE_PATH.
> 
>  CMAKE_MODULE_PATH
>       Path to look for cmake modules to load.
> 
>       Specifies a path to override the default search path for CMake
>       modules.  For example include commands will look in this path first
>       for modules to include.
> 
> Could you add a few words to make clear that CMAKE_MODULE_PATH is a list?

Clarify CMAKE_MODULE_PATH documentation
/cvsroot/CMake/CMake/Source/cmDocumentVariables.cxx,v  <--  Source/cmDocumentVariables.cxx
new revision: 1.47; previous revision: 1.46

-Brad


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