[CMake] 2.8/3.0: CMAKE_FORCE_C_COMPILER semantics

Rolf Eike Beer eike at sf-mail.de
Sun Apr 13 06:12:10 EDT 2014


> include (CMakeForceCompiler)
> CMAKE_FORCE_C_COMPILER (gcc gcc)
> CMAKE_FORCE_CXX_COMPILER (g++ g++)

A more general question: is there any reason one would have to force a 
compiler in a toolchain file? Just set CMAKE_*_COMPILER to the path, that 
should be all that is needed, no? I've seen this multiple times and I wonder 
if that makes any sense at all.

Eike
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