overriding CMAKE_MODULE_PATH

[Yury G. Kudryashov]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> On Sunday 15 August 2010, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> Many (all?) KDE modules have the following string in the beginning of
>> CMakeLists.txt:
>>
>> set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/modules)
>>
>> What do you think about replacing this string with the following?
>>
>> set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/cmake/modules
>> ${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH})
>>
>> This would allow user to say, e.g.,
>>
>> cmake ${kdenetowrk_src_dir} -
>> DCMAKE_MODULE_PATH=${libktorrent_prefix}/share/apps/cmake/modules
> 
> Why would you want to do that ?
> I think this shouldn't be necessary, and might break more stuff than it
> helps.
Because I have libktorrent installed into a different prefix (not 
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX), and kdenetwork fails to find it.

What can it break? Why not force CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH if you force 
CMAKE_MODULE_PATH?
> 
> Alex