Hi all, I suggested this in the quite long thread "third party library dependencies", but it may have been overlooked. Hence, I started a new thread.
Upon (re)reading the Mandriva page http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Overlinking, I was thinking: maybe the issue of overlinking can be solved more or less the same way as pkg-config does: i.e. by defining private dependencies. This could be an extra option to target_link_libraries. Something like: target_link_libraries(mylib public1 public2 PRIVATE private1 private2) This would tell CMake that mylib directly depends on public1 and public2 and should only link in these two libraries when these are shared object libraries; otherwise private1 and private2 would also need to be added on the link line. The big hurdle to take, of course, is to detect in a platform-independent way whether the given library is shared or static. However, a lot of this knowledge is already available in the diverse Modules/Platform macros, so my feeling is that this should be feasible. Best regards, Marcel Loose. _______________________________________________ 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://www.cmake.org/mailman/listinfo/cmake
