# Find the prefix from the `*Config.cmake` file being generated. # # When generating an installed `*Config.cmake` file, we often want to be able # to refer to the ancestor directory which contains all the installed files. # # We want to do this without baking in an absolute path when the config file is # generated, in order to allow for a "relocatable" binary distribution that # doesn't need to know what path it ends up being installed at when it is # built. # # The solution that we know the relative path that the config file will be at # within that prefix, like `"${prefix_var}/lib/cmake/${project}"`, so we count # the number of components in that path to figure out how many parent dirs we # need to traverse from the location of the config file to get to the prefix # dir. # # out_var: # variable to set the "return value" of the function, which is the code to # include in the config file under construction. # # prefix_var: # Name of the variable to define in the returned code (not directory for the # faller!) that will contain the prefix path. # # path_to_leave: # Path from the prefix to the config file, a relative path which we wish to # go up and out from to find the prefix directory. function(find_prefix_from_config out_var prefix_var path_to_leave) if(IS_ABSOLUTE "${path_to_leave}") # Because the path is absolute, we don't care about `path_to_leave` # because we can just "jump" to the absolute path rather than work # our way there relatively. set(config_code "# Installation prefix is fixed absolute path" "set(${prefix_var} \"${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}\")") else() # `path_to_leave` is relative. Relative to what? The install prefix. # We therefore go up enough parent directories to get back to the # install prefix, and avoid hard-coding any absolute paths. set(config_code "# Compute the installation prefix from this LLVMConfig.cmake file location." "get_filename_component(${prefix_var} \"\${CMAKE_CURRENT_LIST_FILE}\" PATH)") # Construct the proper number of get_filename_component(... PATH) # calls to compute the installation prefix. string(REGEX REPLACE "/" ";" _count "${path_to_leave}") foreach(p ${_count}) list(APPEND config_code "get_filename_component(${prefix_var} \"\${${prefix_var}}\" PATH)") endforeach(p) endif() string(REPLACE ";" "\n" config_code "${config_code}") set("${out_var}" "${config_code}" PARENT_SCOPE) endfunction()