[CMake] Using CMake include does not seem to work intuatively

[Petr Kmoch]

Hi Saad.

I can't comment on whether the behaviour is correct or expectable, but to
get it working the way you want, you can specify the path fully:

include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_DIR}/Bar.cmake)

Petr


On 13 December 2017 at 01:34, Saad Khattak <saadrustam at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Let's say I have the following directory structure:
> ~/Repos/MyRepo/CMakeLists.txt
> ~/CMakeFiles/Foo.cmake
> ~/CMakeFiles/Bar.cmake
>
> In the CMakeLists.txt I have the following command:
>
> include(~/CMakeFiles/Foo.cmake)
>
> And in Foo.cmake I have the following command:
>
> include(Bar.cmake)
>
> Turns out that he `include(Bar.cmake)` from `Foo.cmake` fails. This is
> counter to what I would expect (e.g. how #include works in C).
>
> Is this a bug or is this behavior expected? If it's expected, what is the
> workaround? We have a lot of common cmake files which in turn include files
> relative to each other and not the calling CMakeLists.txt.
>
> Thank you,
> Saad
>
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