[cmake-developers] [CMake 0012543]: Cannot specify link_libraries per configuration when using custom configurations

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=12543 
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Reported By:                Tony Bridges
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   12543
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   feature
Priority:                   high
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2011-10-27 19:00 EDT
Last Modified:              2011-10-27 19:00 EDT
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Summary:                    Cannot specify link_libraries per configuration when
using custom configurations
Description: 
Related to 0012124, added to refine the requirement.

In my project, I need to build a particular shared project a number of different
ways (Debug/Release Shared/Static MBCS/Unicode in all combinations).  These are
implemented as multiple configurations via CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES. (Debug,
Debug-Shared, Debug-Shared-Unicode for example) 

At the project level, I need to specify different support libraries by name,
based on the configuration. For example, for static debug I reference
cppunitd.lib, and for shared debug I reference cppunitd-sh.lib.  

The support for conditional libraries in the target_link_libraries command is
limited to the standard configurations, Debug, Release, Optimized.  Custom
configurations are not recognized here.  

What is needed is the ability to use custom configurations in the
target_link_libraries command to set library names per configuration.  

The same argument applies to setting the library path (and to a lesser extent,
the include path).  Currently, these can only be set per-configuration at the
solution level (via set(CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS_DEBUG_SHARED_UNICODE) ), which requires
that the conditional paths for all libraries in the solution be set globally. 
This results in a potentially dangerous superset of LIBPATHS being pushed into
every project in the solution, and loss of control over order and precedence.
  


Additional Information: 
to summarize, looking for features as follows :

target_link_libraries ( {MyCustomConfigName} {MyLibByConfigName} )

link_directories ( {MyCustomConfigName}  {MyLibPath} )

include_directories ( {MyCustomConfigName}  {MyIncPath} )

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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2011-10-27 19:00 Tony Bridges   New Issue                                    
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