Wow, that's pretty bad. I even replied to one of those threads. Sorry for
the noise. The official bug post for this issue is here:
http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=10718
I agree with Alan Irwin that it will continue to haunt users well into the
future.
On Wed, Sep 8, 2010 at 2:38 AM, Michael Wild <them...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 8. Sep, 2010, at 8:25 , Philip Lowman wrote:
>
> > Let's say I have many different potential names for a library and the
> > following filesystem
> >
> > /usr/lib/libnspr4.so
> > ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/libnspr4a.so
> >
> > find_library(TEST_LIBRARY
> > NAMES nspr4 nspr4a
> > HINTS ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}
> > )
> >
> > I'm somewhat surprised that the following code finds /usr/lib/libnspr4.so
> > instead of the alternate name for it (libnspr4a.so). This tells me that
> the
> > loop is backwards. Shouldn't the find_library() command be iterating the
> > list of library names across each directory. For example, the above
> should
> > search:
> >
> > First ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}...
> > ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/libnspr4.so
> > ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/libnspr4a.so
> > Then the system directories...
> > (system paths)/lib/libnspr4.so
> > (system paths)/lib/libnspr4a.so
> > Etc.
> >
> > The system is actually searching
> > ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/libnspr4.so
> > /usr/lib/libnspr4.so
> > ${CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR}/libnspr4a.so
> > /usr/lib/libnspr4a.so
> >
> > This is with CMake 2.8.2
> >
> > --
> > Philip Lowman
>
> Oh, no! This topic haunts the list ;-) See
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cmake@cmake.org/msg30602.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cmake@cmake.org/msg28946.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cmake@cmake.org/msg27838.html
> http://www.mail-archive.com/cmake@cmake.org/msg24565.html
>
> Michael
>
> --
> There is always a well-known solution to every human problem -- neat,
> plausible, and wrong.
> H. L. Mencken
>
>
--
Philip Lowman
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