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authorRobert Maynard <robert.maynard@kitware.com>2020-05-14 17:54:38 (GMT)
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Document which environment variables effect CMAKE_SYSTEM_PREFIX_PATH
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@@ -143,6 +143,10 @@ If ``NO_DEFAULT_PATH`` is not specified, the search process is as follows:
* |CMAKE_SYSTEM_XXX_PATH|
* |CMAKE_SYSTEM_XXX_MAC_PATH|
+ The platform paths that these variables contain are locations that
+ typically include installed software. An example being ``/usr/local`` for
+ UNIX based platforms.
+
7. Search the paths specified by the PATHS option
or in the short-hand version of the command.
These are typically hard-coded guesses.