[cmake-developers] Target usage requirements and conventions

Ben Boeckel ben.boeckel at kitware.com
Thu May 3 12:19:52 EDT 2012


On Thu, May 03, 2012 at 09:35:44 -0600, Clinton Stimpson wrote:
> The include, defines, etc... can be properties on a target when when 
> target_use_target() is used, it could extract those properties and apply them 
> on the using target.

So we'll also need a way to define private values for these things as
well. Linking some abstraction library should not automatically link the
abstracted library, add its header path, or add any defines for it to
targets that use the abstraction library.

--Ben



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