On 25 February 2010 18:41, David Cole <david.c...@kitware.com> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2010 at 1:29 PM, Bill Hoffman <bill.hoff...@kitware.com> > wrote: >> >> Noel O'Boyle wrote: >> >>> >>> Done. I've attached the result (off list). In summary it seems to be >>> searching for python2.6.exe first, instead of python.exe. >>> >> >> OK, so that is the problem.... >> >> It looks for names in this order: >> >> NAMES python2.6 python2.5 python2.4 python2.3 python2.2 python2.1 >> python2.0 python1.6 python1.5 python >> >> >> It will prefer python2.6 over python in the PATH, and it has no way of >> knowing or caring if one is cygwin or not. I don't think there is much we >> can do about this. >> >> I should have noticed this: >> C:/Python26/python.exe >> C:/Cygwin/bin/python2.5.exe >> >> >> I suppose one fix could be to to have the windows one prefer python over >> any of the named version ones... >> > > Same problem as ever: when multiple versions are installed an automatic > "find" result cannot be relied upon to choose the right one. In that case, > caller should set PYTHON_EXECUTABLE explicitly prior to doing the find call. > On the other hand, we should not have a version/path mismatch between python > exes and libs and headers. We should consistently find one first, and then > find the other stuff relative to that. Or leave that other stuff set as > NOTFOUND if there are no libs/headers relative to the exe. > This should be as easy as changing which Qt is found: change > QT_QMAKE_EXECUTABLE and other stuff gets re-found. Same logic should apply > here: change PYTHON_EXECUTABLE and other stuff should be re-found...
Well, I will leave the details to you guys, but when I want to run python on any platform I type "python", and so it seems to be that "python.exe" should be ahead of all of the other options in the list. > David > _______________________________________________ Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
