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Re: Default installation of .cmake files

 

On Thursday August 19 2010 16:32:04 Anders Logg wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:31:10PM +0100, Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 15:26 -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> > > On Thursday August 19 2010 15:17:51 Garth N. Wells wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2010-08-19 at 15:14 -0700, Johan Hake wrote:
> > > > > 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 $HOME/local.
> > > > > 
> > > >     export UFC_DIR=$HOME/local/share/ufc/cmake
> > > > 
> > > > should do it.
> > > 
> > > But this I have to do for every package. With pkg-config I could just
> > > add
> > > 
> > >    $HOME/local/lib/pkg-config
> > > 
> > > to
> > > 
> > >   PKG_CONFIG_PATH
> > > 
> > > and I was fine. I wonder if I could add something like:
> > >   CMAKE_CONFIG_PATH=$HOME/local/share
> > > 
> > > ?
> 
> If there is no CMake variable that does this, we could define our own
> variable and set all FOO_DIR variables to that variable if they are
> not set.

I think this is exactly what Garth already has done.

Johan



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