On Saturday 12 January 2013, peterle oberwi wrote: > I'm sorry but there is something wrong with my mail prog, please could > somebody correct my mistake. > > Thank you for your answers. But my question is more in general. There > defintly some libraries, which don't provide environment variables or > other variables for the cmake module. I forgot to mention that I already > know the way to set some variables like BOOST_ROOT or whatever, sorry. > > Also if I install the library to /usr/local the problem is the same. As > long as there is a system installed library the command find_package will > use this version, as far as I tested it. If there is no way like some > special environment varibles or the possibility to force a special > version, the system library is used. What I'm looking for is a way like > it's done in configure scripts. I can use something like ./configure > --use_boost=/home/test/boost_dir. Is there the possiblity to do something > like this cmake --use_boost=/home/test/boost_dir. It should be very easy > to extend the find_package command.
Did you give CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH a try ? Alex -- 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