Hi,

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 5:38 AM, John Gallagher <
johnkgallagher+cm...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Some Googling has led me to questions that have been asked that are
> similar to this one but I haven't seen a definitive answer. I'm trying to
> set up a CMake "superbuild" where there are dependencies between the
> subprojects, and some of the subprojects use find_package() to import
> targets from their dependencies (other subprojects, from the superbuild's
> point of view). For a stripped down example, suppose I have proj1 and
> proj2. proj1 can be built and installed on its own, and it writes out a
> Proj1Config.cmake file (with targets and such). proj2 uses
>
> find_package(Proj1 REQUIRED)
>
> to import those targets. So independent of a CMake superbuild, things work
> just fine if I configure, build, and install proj1, *then* configure,
> build, and install proj2. Is there a way to do this using a CMake
> superbuild? Some ideas (mostly gleaned from the aforementioned googling):
>

I haven't used it yet, but this sounds like you should look into the
ExternalProject module of CMake. See
http://cmake.org/cmake/help/v2.8.10/cmake.html#module:ExternalProject

Andreas
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