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authorDavid Aguilar <davvid@gmail.com>2018-12-21 00:41:04 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2019-01-16 14:59:46 (GMT)
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find_package: optionally resolve symlinks when discovering packages
Teach find_package() to resolve symlinks when constructing relocatable prefix paths from discovered cmake config files. The `CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_RESOLVE_SYMLINKS` variable enables this behavior when set to `TRUE`. Fixes: #18704
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+* The :command:`find_package` command learned to optionally resolve
+ symbolic links in the paths to package configuration files.
+ See the :variable:`CMAKE_FIND_PACKAGE_RESOLVE_SYMLINKS` variable.