[CMake] Private dependencies of static libraries exported as targets

[Nicholas Braden]

Yes, the behavior is documented in several places, the most prominent
being here:
https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.html#transitive-usage-requirements


On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Ivan Shapovalov <intelfx at intelfx.name> wrote:
> On 2016-08-15 at 21:46 -0400, Guillaume Dumont wrote:
>> As far as I know the PRIVATE
>> keyword
>> should have no effect on transitive linking when foo is static and we
>> call:
>>
>> target_link_libraries(foo PRIVATE bar)
>>
>> Hope this helps.
>
> Wow. I did not know that. Should've tested on sample project.
> It does not solve include path bloat though, but that's a minor issue.
>
> One question remains... is this behavior documented somewhere?
>
> Anyway, huge thanks,
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> Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /
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