[CMake] Calling of find_package from function

Petr Kmoch petr.kmoch at gmail.com
Fri Nov 7 10:39:34 EST 2014


Hi Andrey.

As a workaround, you could make the calling context a macro instead of a
function. Macros don't introduce variable scope.

Petr

On Fri, Nov 7, 2014 at 4:23 PM, Andrey Upadyshev <oliora at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello!
>
> I'm writing a wrapper around find_package so I call find_package from my
> own function. I found it's near impossible because all the variables set by
> finders remain in the scope of my wrapper function, rather than in the
> caller's scope. Is there any way to force find_package to set all variables
> in my function caller's scope? I.e. something like find_package(...
> PARENT_SCOPE)?
>
> Thank you,
> Andrey
>
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