Brad and I discussed this a few years ago but nothing really came of it.
Working through several find modules today, I saw many common patterns for
this and realized it should be pretty easy to implement, so here it is:
Allow the variables ENV{PackageName_ROOT} and PackageName_ROOT to be used
as initial search prefixes for al find_{file,path,library,program} commands
executed from within a find module.
https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/796
Specifying the search prefix is a very common pattern, especially when the
utility is not setup in your path, and prevents the need to explicitly set
the location of all the various headers and libraries for a module when you
can just specify a prefix to use.
Thoughts? Good Idea? Bad idea? Good, but do it differently? Undecided?
Thanks
- Chuck
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