On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Michael Wild <[email protected]> wrote:
> The build_thirdparty macro calls itself other macros, e.g. build_zlib. That 
> one "guesses" the output location of the zlib libraries, creates an IMPORTED 
> library target and sets XXX_LIBRARIES accordingly.
>
> The problem of finding the output location of external projects has been 
> discussed quite a few times, and there is only one really clean, although 
> complex and confusing solution: There is one "master" project which only 
> makes calls to ExternalProject_Add, even the main project is build as such an 
> external project.

Isn't the solution to use system libs for zlib?
Building zlib 'privately' seems like a bad work around.

Olaf
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