[CMake] CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH appears not to work properly for finding libtcl

Alan W. Irwin irwin at beluga.phys.uvic.ca
Sat May 15 15:36:00 EDT 2010


On 2010-05-15 11:04-0700 Alan W. Irwin wrote:

> On 2010-05-15 09:43-0400 Bill Hoffman wrote:
>
>> OK, your right, it does prefer names that show up first in the name list 
>> even if they are later in the total path.
>> [...] Not supper easy to fix...   FindProgram is actually a pretty 
>> complicated function.
>> But, if someone wants to test/send a patch... :)
>
> My C++ skills are too limited to help here, but I believe swapping the
> bodies of the "inner" and "outer" FindProgram methods should do the trick
> along with the change that the new outer method (formerly the old inner
> method) iterates over all names to call the new inner method.

AARGH.  That should have read

iterates over all paths in the SUPER_PATH to call the new inner method
which iterates over all names.

Alan

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