From 9893b7148388be2a2bfc5bd3ada6bbd31df7e12f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Roland Conybeare <rconybeare@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 2024 19:35:34 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] build: streamline CMAKE_MODULE_PATH interaction

---
 .gitignore                      |  2 +-
 CMakeLists.txt                  |  3 +--
 README.md                       | 11 +++++++++++
 cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake | 12 ++++++++++++
 4 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake

diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f52f1311..53a9c92f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # lsp keeps state here
 .cache
 # typical build directory
-build
+.build*
 # lsp: symlink to file in build directory (established manually)
 compile_commands.json
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index ed35dc91..22a91f72 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -6,8 +6,7 @@ project(xo_pywebutil VERSION 0.1)
 enable_language(CXX)
 
 # common XO cmake macros (see github.com:Rconybea/xo-cmake)
-include(xo_macros/xo_cxx)
-include(xo_macros/code-coverage)
+include(cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake)
 
 # ----------------------------------------------------------------
 # unit test setup
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 293fa8a4..52d702da 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -23,6 +23,17 @@ $ make install
 ```
 (also see .github/workflows/main.yml)
 
+## Examples
+
+Assumes `xo-pywebutil` installed to `~/local2/lib`
+```
+$ PYTHONPATH=~/local2/lib:$PYTHONPATH python
+>>> import xo_pywebutil
+>>> dir(xo_pywebutil)
+['EndpointDescr', 'StreamEndpointDescr', '__doc__', '__file__', '__loader__', '__name__', '__package__', '__spec__']
+>>> from xo_pywebutil import *
+```
+
 ## Development
 
 ### build for unit test coverage
diff --git a/cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake b/cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..16644435
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cmake/xo-bootstrap-macros.cmake
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+if (("${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}" STREQUAL "") OR ("${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}" STREQUAL "prefix"))
+    # default to typical install location for xo-project-macros
+    set(CMAKE_MODULE_PATH ${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}/share/cmake)
+endif()
+
+message("-- CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=${CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX}")
+message("-- CMAKE_MODULE_PATH=${CMAKE_MODULE_PATH}")
+
+# needs to have been installed somewhere on CMAKE_MODULE_PATH,
+# (e.g. from xo-cmake with the same value for CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX)
+#
+include(xo_macros/xo-project-macros)