overriding CMAKE_MODULE_PATH

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 16.08.10 00:09:41, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Sunday 15 August 2010, Yury G. Kudryashov wrote:
> >> 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.

Then either specify CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH for fix the FindKTorrent.cmake
module.

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

CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH has other uses than CMAKE_MODULE_PATH, so this
wouldn't make any sense.

Andreas

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