I am trying to figure out exactly what this line is for in the cmake file of
the github json project here ->
https://github.com/nlohmann/json/blob/develop/CMakeLists.txt#L48
add_library(${PROJECT_NAME}::${NLOHMANN_JSON_TARGET_NAME} ALIAS
${NLOHMANN_JSON_TARGET_NAME})
Specifically with this example, what does this allow in this cmake file that
otherwise would not be possible?
The commit message where this line was added says,
"Enable target namespaces and build dir project config
CMake convention is to use a project namespace, i.e. Foo::, for imported
targets. When multiple targets are imported from a project, this looks
like Foo::Bar1 Foo::Bar2, etc. This adds the nlohmann_json:: namespace to
the exported target names.
This also allows the generated project config files to be used from the
build directory instead of just the install directory."
Removing this line appears to make no difference to any off the generated cmake
files. I can still use find_package with the build directory in
CMAKE_PREFIX-PATH with our without this line. Has something changed in cmake
since this was added?
I am using cmake 3.10.2.
Thanks.
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