[CMake] CMake 3.12 rc2 to rc3 Regression

[Robert Maynard]

The original author of the feature is looking at how to solve this
problem. The author has a post on the developer boards on some of the
changes needed to get everything to work:
https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake-developers/2018-July/030760.html
On Thu, Jul 19, 2018 at 8:04 AM Michael Jackson
<mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
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> Thank you for the links.
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> After reading through all the various discussions is there a time line of when the feature will be added back to CMake? Is it a matter of having somebody to work the problem? Is the problem solvable?
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> From: Craig Scott <craig.scott at crascit.com>
> Date: Wednesday, July 18, 2018 at 9:40 AM
> To: Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net>
> Cc: CMake <cmake at cmake.org>
> Subject: Re: [CMake] CMake 3.12 rc2 to rc3 Regression
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> On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 11:04 PM, Michael Jackson <mike.jackson at bluequartz.net> wrote:
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> Searching the mailing list archives for the RC3 announcement I scrolled to the bottom and found:
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> Brad King (2):
>       Revert "target_link_libraries: Allow use with targets in other
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>       CMake 3.12.0-rc3
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> Just curious what caused the issue to revert the change?
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> The original problem report was on the dev mailing list:
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> https://cmake.org/pipermail/cmake-developers/2018-June/030740.html
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> The longer history of how the feature evolved and was then reverted can be found here:
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> https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/17943
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