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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2015-06-08 20:11:10 (GMT)
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Help: Document find_* command versioned/unversioned name ordering
Suggest in the NAMES option that unversioned names go first to prefer local builds over distro-provided files.
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``NAMES``
Specify one or more possible names for the |SEARCH_XXX|.
+ When using this to specify names with and without a version
+ suffix, we recommend specifying the unversioned name first
+ so that locally-built packages can be found before those
+ provided by distributions.
+
``HINTS``, ``PATHS``
Specify directories to search in addition to the default locations.
The ``ENV var`` sub-option reads paths from a system environment