On 06/05/2017 04:10 PM, David Cole via cmake-developers wrote: > Why is there any restriction on ALIAS targets about what sorts of > targets they may be aliases of?
Adding Steve (who added ALIAS targets) to Cc. The use case in the documentation: https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.9/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.html#alias-targets is the only one that was really designed. It is for making in-project build targets available to other directories in the project under the same name that an externally-built project might see it as an imported target. This allows tests and examples to use the name that client code would. Of course only in-project build targets need to be aliased for this. Steve, is there any reason for the restriction other than not implementing more use cases up front? Thanks, -Brad -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
