Ah, I misunderstood what you were asking about. It would be pretty weird if CMake didn't know that static libraries always need all their dependencies linked regardless of privacy, but I agree it should at least be mentioned somewhere. My bad.
As for include path bloat, I cannot replicate this in my test project - CMake will link all the dependencies as required but will NOT violate "PRIVATE" for other things like include directories. Could you give an example where you are seeing a static library's private dependency's include path being added when linking the static library? On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 7:44 PM, Ivan Shapovalov <inte...@intelfx.name> wrote: > TBH, I do not see the "PRIVATE dependencies are made PUBLIC for the > purposes of linking when the dependent is static library" there. > > -- > Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx / > > > On 2016-08-16 at 02:35 -0500, Nicholas Braden wrote: >> Yes, the behavior is documented in several places, the most prominent >> being here: >> https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.html#t >> ransitive-usage-requirements >> >> >> On Mon, Aug 15, 2016 at 9:22 PM, Ivan Shapovalov <inte...@intelfx.nam >> e> wrote: >> > >> > On 2016-08-15 at 21:46 -0400, Guillaume Dumont wrote: >> > > >> > > As far as I know the PRIVATE >> > > keyword >> > > should have no effect on transitive linking when foo is static >> > > and we >> > > call: >> > > >> > > target_link_libraries(foo PRIVATE bar) >> > > >> > > Hope this helps. >> > >> > Wow. I did not know that. Should've tested on sample project. >> > It does not solve include path bloat though, but that's a minor >> > issue. >> > >> > One question remains... is this behavior documented somewhere? >> > >> > Anyway, huge thanks, >> > -- >> Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx / -- 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