On Friday 19 February 2010, Luigi Calori wrote:
> I would like to have some clarification about module and include
> effective search order:
>
> I am in the following situation:
>
> I use (configure) a project that is overriding some CMake standard Find
> modules by doing in his main CMakeLists.txt file:
>
> SET(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "<ProjectModuleFolder>;${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}")
>
> I would like to being able to override, at configure time the project
> modules with mine.
Then the project may get some find-modules which behave differently than what
it expects. Why do you want to do this ?
> Doing:
> cmake -DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH:PATH=<myModuleFolder>
> does not work (my files are searched AFTER projects files)
Yes, because the other project appends its apth to the already existing one,
so your ends up at the end.
> Is it safe to just change project CMakeLists.txt to
> SET(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH "${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH};<ProjectModuleFolder>")
>
> Or, on older CMake version this could result in getting standard CMake
> modules found first?
Everything in CMAKE_MODULE_PATH will be searched before cmake's own module
directory.
Alex
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