The documentation you get from cmake --help-full
refers to the IMPORTED_LOCATION property as one of the more important ones set for imported targets. I have to agree that location is the most important property for imported targets, but the name appears to be wrong for the documentation of this property! After screwing around for a while trying to use the above property for my imported targets, I discovered (by guessing) that the name of a property that actually does give the location information is IMPORT_LOCATION, not IMPORTED_LOCATION. For what it is worth, IMPORT_LOCATION works for an imported library, and I haven't tried this on imported executables. (By the way, LOCATION works as well, but that appears from the documentation to be a left-over from CMake 2.4 which is why I tried to get IMPORTED_LOCATION to work and when that failed, switched to the currently undocumentated IMPORT_LOCATION.) I find IMPORTED_LOCATION is mentioned in the following places in the cmake-2.8.6 source tree: software@raven> find cmake-2.8.6 -print0 -type f \ |xargs -0 grep -l IMPORTED_LOCATION cmake-2.8.6/ChangeLog.txt cmake-2.8.6/Modules/FindQt4.cmake cmake-2.8.6/Tests/ExportImport/Import/A/CMakeLists.txt cmake-2.8.6/Tests/SimpleInstall/CMakeLists.txt cmake-2.8.6/Tests/SimpleInstallS2/CMakeLists.txt cmake-2.8.6/Source/cmTarget.cxx cmake-2.8.6/Source/cmAddExecutableCommand.h cmake-2.8.6/Source/cmAddLibraryCommand.h cmake-2.8.6/Source/cmExportBuildFileGenerator.cxx cmake-2.8.6/Source/cmExportInstallFileGenerator.cxx A similar search for IMPORT_LOCATION found nothing at all! However, I spot-checked cmake-2.8.6/Source/cmTarget.cxx, and all those mentions of IMPORTED_LOCATION appear to be documentation strings rather than executable code, and I was unable to find why IMPORTED_LOCATION does not work for me while IMPORT_LOCATION does. So this needs someone who is familiar with the CMake code to figure out what the actual problem is here, and to decide whether a fix to the documentation strings is all that is required or whether some deeper change needs to be made. Alan __________________________ Alan W. Irwin Astronomical research affiliation with Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca). Programming affiliations with the FreeEOS equation-of-state implementation for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); the Time Ephemerides project (timeephem.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software package (plplot.sf.net); the libLASi project (unifont.org/lasi); the Loads of Linux Links project (loll.sf.net); and the Linux Brochure Project (lbproject.sf.net). __________________________ Linux-powered Science __________________________ -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
