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James E. King, III commented on THRIFT-4412: -------------------------------------------- CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH only controls the cmake find_ routines. I don't think it is supposed to be used to add a link library directory to the linker's search path. There may be a cmake option you can set for the FindBoost module that will force it to use full paths instead. I'm not convinced this is a thrift project issue (yet). > thrift cmake does not use absolute library path, linking system libraries > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: THRIFT-4412 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/THRIFT-4412 > Project: Thrift > Issue Type: Question > Components: Build Process > Affects Versions: 0.10.0, 0.11.0 > Reporter: Mario Emmenlauer > Assignee: James E. King, III > Priority: Minor > > I build thrift using cmake on Linux. It works generally very good on many > platforms (I've tested Linux, Windows and MacOSX extensively). But one issue > is plaguing me. I have my own custom boost libraries, libevent and others. I > set {{CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH}} to their install directory. This generally also > works well, and cmake finds the libraries. However in the final Makefile, the > linker command uses {{-lxxx}} for library {{xxx}} instead of the usual cmake > absolute path {{/a/b/c/libxxx.so}}. This is a problem because {{ld}} suddenly > prefers the system libraries over my custom builds. This in turn breaks the > build for me. > I do not have this problem with any other cmake builds. And I tried various > workarounds to force cmake to use the absolute path, but failed. Did somebody > maybe add this on purpose? -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029)