[CMake] Linux TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES bug

[Brandon J. Van Every]

Radu Serban wrote:
> Brandon J. Van Every wrote:
>> In my toplevel CMakeLists.txt I have:
>>
>> ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(pcre)
>> ADD_SUBDIRECTORY(boot)
>>
>> in pcre/CMakeLists.txt I build
>>
>>  SET_TARGET_PROPERTIES(libpcre-for-shared PROPERTIES
>>    COMPILE_FLAGS "${SHARED_FLAGS} -fPIC"
>>    OUTPUT_NAME pcre-for-shared)
>>
>> in boot/CMakeLists.txt I link:
>>
>>  TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES(chicken-boot libchicken-boot libpcre-for-static)
>>
>> This works fine under MinGW, and Cygwin.  It also works under MSVC 
>> with some additional "liblib" code.  Under Linux it dies with
>>
>> Linking C executable chicken-boot
>> /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i586-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../i586-suse-linux/bin/ld: 
>>
>> cannot find -llibpcre-for-static
>> collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
>> make[2]: *** [boot/chicken-boot] Error 1
>> make[1]: *** [boot/CMakeFiles/chicken-boot.dir/all] Error 2
>> make: *** [all] Error 2
>>
>> It seems the target name "libpcre-for-static" is not being propagated 
>> from the pcre subdirectory, in a way that TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES will 
>> pick up.
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Brandon Van Every
>>
>
> I do the exact same thing for my project and have no problems 
> whatsoever...
> (ccmake version 2.4-patch 5)


My colleague Felix actually observed this bug using CMake 2.5 CVS.  I 
haven't tried to reproduce it myself; I'm not entirely swift with my 
Linux setup yet.  Meanwhile, Felix is not certain he can reproduce it.  
He'll report back later.


Cheers,
Brandon Van Every