From 1eb4d3b8ee64014bfc6d20954f8e47ede662cdc2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tobias Frisch <tfrisch@uni-koblenz.de>
Date: Fri, 17 Sep 2021 16:32:15 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] [#107] Fixed check for empty submodule directory

Signed-off-by: Tobias Frisch <tfrisch@uni-koblenz.de>
---
 config/ext/Git.cmake | 8 ++++++--
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/config/ext/Git.cmake b/config/ext/Git.cmake
index 21bba124..676ba05b 100644
--- a/config/ext/Git.cmake
+++ b/config/ext/Git.cmake
@@ -38,7 +38,9 @@ function(init_git_submodules)
 endfunction()
 
 function(use_git_submodule submodule_path submodule_status)
-    if (EXISTS "${submodule_path}")
+    file(GLOB path_glob "${submodule_path}")
+    list(LENGTH path_glob glob_len)
+    if(glob_len GREATER 0)
         set(${submodule_status} TRUE PARENT_SCOPE)
         return()
     endif()
@@ -57,7 +59,9 @@ function(use_git_submodule submodule_path submodule_status)
                 COMMENT "Updating Git Submodules"
         )
 
-        if (EXISTS "${submodule_path}")
+        file(GLOB path_glob "${submodule_path}")
+        list(LENGTH path_glob glob_len)
+        if(glob_len GREATER 0)
             set(${submodule_status} TRUE PARENT_SCOPE)
             return()
         endif()
-- 
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