[CMake] LOCATION/CMP0026/export/import

[Robert Maynard]

I believe that IMPORTED_LOCATION is safe to use.
On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 3:27 PM Hendrik Greving
<hendrik.greving.smi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> So IMPORTED_LOCATION is obsolete as well? (since reading LOCATION is obsolete)
>
> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 11:39 AM Robert Maynard <robert.maynard at kitware.com> wrote:
>>
>> With generator expressions making the reading of  LOCATION non-viable
>> during configuration time ( since the actual location is now evaluated
>> at generate time ), the general solution is that you need to move your
>> LOCATION reading logic also to generate time. In general this means
>> using something like file(GENERATE ) to dump the location to disk.
>> On Wed, Nov 7, 2018 at 1:05 PM Hendrik Greving
>> <hendrik.greving.smi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hello,
>> >
>> > w/ LOCATION property made obsolete, how can one read a target's LOCATION for imported targets? Previously, IMPORTED_LOCATION was conveyed for such targets, but reading the LOCATION property of imported targets leads to the same warning as for project targets?
>> >
>> > Thanks in advance
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