[MESOS-9351] Refactor the "_ROOT_DIR" logic into FindPackageHelper for CMake.

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Open
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.0
• Component/s: build, cmake
• Labels: cmake unbundled-dependencies
• Story Points: 2
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Till Toenshoff
• Created: 24/Oct/18 13:47
• Updated: 29/Apr/19 09:26

Description

The unbundled libevent build has a TODO that recommends moving the logic for determining the root-dir of a package into our FindPackageHelper.
See https://github.com/apache/mesos/blob/ba0f78112b766e2a1d6e43c40d7fb2f7569c2580/3rdparty/cmake/FindLIBEVENT.cmake#L20-L40

That logic is pretty neat for e.g. homebrew users as it makes use of the installation prefix information gathered from the brew tool.

Instead of copy&pasting the same thing over and over into respective FindLIBxxx.cmake packages, we should move it up into FindPackageHelper.cmake.