<div dir="auto">I think the documentation also fails to mention that link dependencies propagate even when "PRIVATE" is used, if the target is a static library. <div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 22 Aug 2017 4:40 pm, "Brad King" <<a href="mailto:brad.king@kitware.com">brad.king@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 08/22/2017 11:36 AM, Robert Maynard wrote:<br>
> The `Transitive Usage Requirements` section of the cmake-buildsystem<br>
> documentation quickly covers this idea but it could be elaborated on.<br>
> This might be a good place for a concrete example.<br>
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Yes.  Showing the transitive header case as an example would be good<br>
to show when a dependency should be PUBLIC instead of PRIVATE.<br>
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-Brad<br>
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