On 2016-12-12 13:10+0100 Patrick Boettcher wrote:

Hi list,

is there a policy which can be enabled to forbid calling

 target_link_libraries(foo bar)

where bar is _not_ a known cmake target?

Right now, if 'bar' is not a cmake-target cmake tries to link with
-lbar (on linux). Can I inhibit this behavior in any way?

I'd prefer cmake telling me that this target is unknown rather than
receiving a link error at the end of the build-process.

Hi Patrick:

Try

if(NOT TARGET bar)

to check for this issue.  And if it is an issue that occurs for many
different targets that you build, instead of deploying such checks
again and again, you could implement and use instead a function that
checks for the above condition before calling target_link_libraries.

Alan
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