Brad King wrote:
> On 02/08/2013 01:46 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> I think it might make sense to handle them particularly in LINKED, but I
>> notice set_property and set_target_properties also work fine with them
>> (should that be changed too?)
>
> The ExternalProject module makes heavy use of properties on custom
> targets.
> It is common. It's just INTERFACE properties that do not make sense.
Ok, implemented for the LINKED expression.
>
>>, so I don't know if TARGET_PROPERTY should be
>> changed too. If it is, then it makes sense to change TARGET_DEFINED to
>> consider utilities to not be targets, as that expression is most usefully
>> used with TARGET_PROPERTY.
>
> Perhaps TARGET_DEFINED is not a good name then. What are we really
> asking? TARGET_LINKABLE?
That may not be a good name either. It reads generic enough to me to also
mistake it as accepting libraries.
$<TARGET_LINKABLE:foo> # Is libfoo.so available in the places
# where cmake looks for it?
I don't really have a better idea at the moment though.
Thanks,
Steve.
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