[cmake-developers] [CMake 0012879]: fix: allow absolute paths in IMPORTED_LOCATION with full filename under windows

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12879 
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Reported By:                Thomas Fischer
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   12879
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2012-01-17 20:33 EST
Last Modified:              2012-01-17 20:33 EST
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Summary:                    fix: allow absolute paths in IMPORTED_LOCATION with
full filename under windows
Description: 
the attached patch will allow to use full paths for imported libs for the VS2010
generator, like this:

SET_PROPERTY(TARGET ${libName} PROPERTY  IMPORTED_LOCATION_RELEASE       
${ROR_DEPENDENCIES_DIR}/libs/${ARCH_DIR}/${dirName}/Release/${libName}.lib)

Steps to Reproduce: 
since this is a shortcoming that treads every _LOCATION as path, it will always
reproduce

Additional Information: 
i was not able to get VisualStudio to link correctly with the unpatched code.
The new code will check before assuming if its a directory (FileIsDirectory) so
no harm done there.

escaping paths and filenames for windows also always work, even when no '/' or
'\' are in the filename.
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2012-01-17 20:33 Thomas Fischer New Issue                                    
2012-01-17 20:33 Thomas Fischer File Added: cmake-lib-import.patch              
     
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