[CMake] CMake stripping library extensions

[Dekeyser, Kris]

CMake version 2.0.3
Platform HPUX
 
On HPUX the linker accepts library names with the -l<name> parameter. It
requires library filenames to start with "lib" and end with either ".a" or
".sl". The linker will then automatically try to locate lib<name>.sl and
lib<name>.a. For the exceptions, where the library filename does not start
with "lib" and/or doesn't end with ".sl" or ".a", the linker also accepts
-l:<filename> where filename can be any valid filename. I happen to have to
link to a third party library with the name ToolKit.sl. I therefore need to
add -l:ToolKit.sl to the linker command-line. So I added
"<libdir>/:ToolKit.sl" to the link list. But CMake changes this into
-L<libdir> -l:ToolKit and always strips the ending .sl from the name. This
makes the linker line invalid as the <filename> should be the complete path.
I also tried to add ":<libdir>/ToolKit.sl", but that ended up in -L<libdir>
-lToolKit with both the : and .sl being stripped by CMake.
 
The only thing that works is:
LINK_DIRECTORIES(<libdir>)
TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(<target> ":ToolKit.sl")
 
But as soon as I link the newly created target into another target, the
linker will complain about ToolKit.sl not being found :-((
 
Is there anything else I can try? (except the most obvious one - trying to
force the 3rd party library to use lib<Name>.sl)
 
- Kris
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