[cmake-developers] Setting the link interface and dependencies in one command

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday 02 October 2011, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> On Sa.,   1. Okt. 2011 18:40:09 CEST, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf at kde.org> 
wrote:
> > If library bar internally uses symbols from foo,
> > it needs to link against foo.
> 
> Correct.
> 
> > But if bar doesn't expose symbols from foo in its
> > interface, and my executable   hello links against bar, it doesn't also
> > have to be linked against foo. This saves startup time and other things.
> > Packagers also like that.
> 
> No, you got something wrong here. 

Let me restate my sentence from above more verbose:
"... and my executable hello links against bar, using only symbols exposed by 
bar, and not using symbols from foo, it doesn't also have to be linked against 
foo."

Alex