From a548562b5976af96ba8834e7846993fbbf33a223 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Lantwin <oliver.lantwin@cern.ch>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 17:19:56 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 1/3] chore: use cmake command instead of cryptic python

---
 CMakeLists.txt | 12 ++++++++----
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index 2e45c6763..b913b3e39 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -227,8 +227,12 @@ add_subdirectory (field)
 add_subdirectory (pid)
 add_subdirectory (muonShieldOptimization)
 
-add_custom_target(  # make relative links to folders
-    geometry.link ALL
-    COMMAND [ -e geometry ] || python -c \"import os.path as p, os\; os.symlink(p.join(p.relpath('${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}', '${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}') , 'geometry') , 'geometry') \"
-    COMMAND [ -e macro ] || python -c \"import os.path as p, os\; os.symlink(p.join(p.relpath('${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}', '${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}') , 'macro') , 'macro') \"
+add_custom_target(
+  geometry.link ALL
+  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/geometry
+          ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/geometry
+  COMMAND ${CMAKE_COMMAND} -E create_symlink ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR}/macro
+          ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/macro
+  COMMENT
+    "Creating symlinks from ${CMAKE_SOURCE_DIR} to ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR} for geometry and macro"
 )

From 2ea13a3b128647efb61db8f5affd910c9d54bea1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Lantwin <oliver.lantwin@cern.ch>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 17:33:17 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 2/3] chore: no need to set SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX

---
 CMakeLists.txt | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b913b3e39..af8056191 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -174,7 +174,6 @@ set(FAIRROOT_LIBRARY_PROPERTIES ${FAIRROOT_LIBRARY_PROPERTIES}
 	VERSION "${FAIRROOT_VERSION}"
 	SOVERSION "${FAIRROOT_MAJOR_VERSION}"
 )
-set(CMAKE_SHARED_LIBRARY_SUFFIX .so)
 
 SET(CBMLIBDIR ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/lib)
 SET(LD_LIBRARY_PATH  ${CBMLIBDIR} ${LD_LIBRARY_PATH})

From 6fefa06a23df342efd1468a86a0f04f96c9f822e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Lantwin <oliver.lantwin@cern.ch>
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2025 17:34:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH 3/3] chore: fix typo

---
 CMakeLists.txt | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index af8056191..7ef9e3e9a 100644
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -155,7 +155,7 @@ SetBasicVariables()
 
 # Add the FairRoot include directories to the list of libraries which are
 # external to the Ship project. For include directories in this list the
-# compiler will not generate any warnings. This is usefull since one is only
+# compiler will not generate any warnings. This is useful since one is only
 # interested about warnings from the own project. SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
 # is defined in FairMacros.cmake. In the moment the defined directories are
 # the root and boost include directories.