[CMake] static libs and more

[Alin M Elena]

Hi All,

I do not really think is any need to test if the lib is static or dynamic. In 
real life you should already now that.

Let us take as an example a package XXX we know from documentation that 
provides a static link libA.lib and a dynamic link libB.lib (windows case).

i want to write a module findXXX.cmake that I can use in a find_package command,

if I want a dynamic link i can use
find_package(XXX)
if I want static
find_package(XXX USE_STATIC)

somewhere inside I will have

if (USE_STATIC)
  give me libA.lib
else
 give me libB.lib
endif

So, in my line of thoughts there is no need to test the nature of the two 
libs. I assume their nature based on the documentation.

Alin

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