[cmake-developers] Policy for INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES

[Brad King]

On 12/10/2012 09:52 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> Brad King wrote:
> 
>> IIRC the topic that added dependent export support was only
>> finished for the install(EXPORT) command and not for export().
>> It added a test for the install case mixing namespaces:
>>
>>  http://cmake.org/gitweb?p=cmake.git;a=commitdiff;h=955b9662
>>
>> It appears to work. 
> 
> Yes. I refactored my topic to use the same logic/code as is used there. 

Thanks.

> That involved removing the EXPORT_NAMESPACE generator and adding a new 
> $<TARGET> generator which is a preprocessor-marker accepting only literals 
> for pointing out target names. Those target names only need to be extracted 
> at export time.
> 
> I think the name $<TARGET> is suitable, but I don't mind changing it.

How about "$<TARGET_NAME:...>"?  If it is ever evaluated (instead
of replaced) then it evalutes to "..." anyway, right?

-Brad