Huebl, Axel wrote: > I personally also tend to the cropped "HDF5_VERSION" for consistency and > ease-of-use in environments using stable versions of HDF5 (most > distributions). > > That doesn't mean we could not provide and *additional* > "HDF5_VERSION_STRING". > For sake of consistency, I am not sure how to provide a "-somestring" > extension to "HDF5_VERSION" that cmake's compare operators such as > VERSION_LESS would understand (and/or ignore). I guess that is not > possible and would introduce an inconsistency between the string > "HDF5_VERSION_STRING" and the quasi-numeric variable "HDF5_VERSION".
VERSION_LESS and friends already ignore the extra parts, that is why you only need one variable. Eike --
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