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Re: Default installation of .cmake files

 

On Thursday August 19 2010 15:08:43 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:25 -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> > Ok.
> > 
> > It does not look like /usr/local/share/ufc is looked into. I get this
> > missleading error from dolfin cmake
> > 
> > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:98 (find_package):
> >   Could not find a configuration file for package UFC.dolfin.
> 
> Oh, you need to change that line. It should be
> 
>     find_package(UFC REQUIRED)
> 
> This will pick up the system-wide installation. The line
> 
>     find_package(UFC.dolfin REQUIRED)

Ahh... I guess I learned some cmake today!

Now it actually finds ufc. Even if this is nice, I think it would be even 
nicer if one could tell cmake to look in another place too. I never install 
stuff at /usr/local, but rather $HOME/local.

Johan

> looks for the home-baked local file (dolfin/cmake/FindUFC.dolfin.cmake).
> The home-backed file calls pkg-config. We'll remove this soon.
> 
> Garth
> 
> >   Set UFC.dolfin_DIR to the directory containing a CMake configuration
> >   file
> >   
> >   for UFC.dolfin.  The file will have one of the following names:
> >     UFC.dolfinConfig.cmake
> >     ufc.dolfin-config.cmake
> > 
> > It is not possible to set environment variables with '.' in them...
> > 
> > Johan
> > 
> > On Thursday August 19 2010 13:13:35 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 13:05 -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> > > > I found out that the ufc-config.cmake are installed in
> > > > 
> > > >   prefix/share/ufc
> > > > 
> > > > This is kindoff hard wired. When I removed the ufc-1.pc, DOLFIN cmake
> > > > cannot find ufc.
> > > > 
> > > > With pkg-config we just put the file in a directory and included that
> > > > in PKG_CONFIG_PATH. Is there a similare directory or PATH we can add
> > > > for CMAKE, and hence put all .cmake files there?
> > > > 
> > > > I know trilinos puts it in its prefix/include, so there might not be
> > > > a clear answer to this, I guess.
> > > 
> > > I dug around a bit on the CMake search paths, but didn't reach any firm
> > > conclusion. I stumbled across
> > > 
> > >     prefix/share/ufc
> > > 
> > > by accident. If you see UFC_DIR=prefix, then CMake will (I think) find
> > > the config file in prefix/share/ufc. I'm not sure what happens if it's
> > > in /usr/local/share/ufc. Can you try it out on your machine?
> > > 
> > > Trilinos uses include, others use lib. 'share' seems a better place to
> > > me, especially if CMake searches there.
> > > 
> > > Garth
> > > 
> > > > Johan
> > > > 
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