On Thursday 06 December 2012, Stephen Kelly wrote:
...
> I don't fully follow (too much 'the example' etc :)), but I guess it's not
> too important. I think the two cases we're talking about are clear
> 
> * Installing to a location where one or more locations below
> ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX} are symlinks
> * Installing to a location where locations below ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}
> are not symlinks, but creating a symlink from outside the prefix to inside
> it.

Should find_package() maybe check whether any of the directories in its search 
list actually refer to the same directory, and warn in this case ?
Beside warning, could it do something more helpful to fix the situation ?

Alex
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