[CMake] Creating dependencies between static imported targets.

[Tamás Kenéz]

In my company we're doing this all the time: cmakefying thirdparty
packages. Which means one of these things: (1) fixing existing cmake
support (2) converting autotools build to cmake (3) adding cmake driver to
autotools build.


On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 8:56 PM, Yaron Cohen-Tal <yaronct at gmail.com> wrote:

> That would have been ideal, however it seems to me not many packages ship
> with cmake config module files..
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Tamás Kenéz <tamas.kenez at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Defining the dependencies of an imported target should be done by the
>> target's config-module (or a file invoked by the config-module, usually
>> generated with install(EXPORT...) )
>>
>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2016 at 4:23 PM, Yaron Cohen-Tal <yaronct at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanx!
>>>
>>> I think it would b nice though if the "target_XXX" commands would also
>>> work for imported targets, e.g.. by adding the dependency to
>>> "INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES'. That way I sometimes can use the same command
>>> without checking if the depentent is imported.
>>>
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