On Monday, 5 June 2017 22:45:26 BST Stephen Kelly wrote: > Brad King wrote: > > Steve, is there any reason for the restriction other than not implementing > > more use cases up front? > > There may be more information in the mailing list archives, but as far as I > remember, yes - we wanted to be conservative because we didn't know more > use-cases. Additionally, we didn't know the impact of making the feature > more unrestricted.
If you want to see an example use case, I found that c-ares were trying to ALIAS an IMPORTED library in their package config file to make it convenient for a downstream project to explicitly link against a static or shared library (if available), or link against "either" if they don't care: https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/blob/97f8b14c/c-ares-config.cmake.in If c-ares is compiled with both static and shared options, it will produce c-ares::cares (shared) and c-ares::cares_static (static) exported targets. Otherwise, if only one of the static or shared options is specified, it will always just build and export a c-ares::cares target. Obviously, the code won't work (and there is a pull request to fix it by using INTERFACE libraries at https://github.com/c-ares/c-ares/pull/108), and you may argue that this isn't the right solution to present downstreams with a "static vs shared vs don't care" choice, but I thought it might be interesting to show what developers are wanting to do with this. Alex
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