Since commit ffc06c1239 (Teach find_(library|file|path) to get prefixes
from PATH, 2015-02-18, v3.3.0-rc1~430^2) we search in `<prefix>/include`
and `<prefix>/lib` directories for prefixes with `bin` directories in
the `PATH` environment variable. The motivation was to search the
installation prefixes of MSYS and MinGW development environments
automatically.
This behavior can search undesired prefixes that happen to be in the
`PATH` for unrelated reasons. It was reverted for non-Windows hosts
within a year by commit b30b32a493 (Drop find_(library|file|path)
prefixes from PATH on non-Windows, 2016-05-09, v3.6.0-rc1~82^2) but was
kept on Windows hosts to support its motivating use case. However,
similar problems have since been observed on Windows. For example,
commit 955d6245c1 (MSVC: Revert "Teach find_library to consider the
'libfoo.a' naming convention", 2022-11-28, v3.25.1~6^2) was primarily
due to undesired discovery of libraries in `PATH`-derived prefixes.
Since commit 5e5132e1b1 (MinGW: Search for packages in standard MSYSTEM
environment prefixes, 2023-09-11) we search MSYS and MinGW environments'
prefixes explicitly, so `PATH`-derived prefixes are no longer needed for
the original motivating use case.
Fixes: #24216
CMake Tests Directory
*********************
This directory contains the CMake test suite.
See also the `CMake Source Code Guide`_.
.. _`CMake Source Code Guide`: ../Help/dev/source.rst
Many tests exist as immediate subdirectories, but some tests
are organized as follows.
* ``CMakeLib/``:
Source code, used for tests, that links to the ``CMakeLib`` library
defined over in ``Source/``.
* ``CMakeOnly/``:
Deprecated. Tests that run CMake to generate a project but not build it.
Superseded by ``Tests/RunCMake/``.
* ``Find*/``:
Tests for specific find modules that can only be run on machines with
the corresponding packages installed. They are enabled in
``CMakeLists.txt`` by undocumented options used on CI builds.
* ``Module/``:
Tests for specific CMake modules.
* ``RunCMake/``:
Tests that run CMake and/or other tools while precisely checking
their return code and stdout/stderr content. Useful for testing
error cases and diagnostic output.
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