[cmake-developers] Target usage requirements and conventions

[Clinton Stimpson]

On Thursday, May 03, 2012 10:21:10 am Stephen Kelly wrote:
> On 05/03/2012 06:19 PM, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> > 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
> 
> You guys should read the wiki page :) You're a few months behind the
> discussions that have already happened.

:) But I don't see anything in the wiki about using this functionality without 
a find_package().

If I have a large project with many shared libraries, can I use this concept 
you are developing to help manage the compile flags for my own libraries within 
my own project?  Or is this strictly for imported targets/find_package()?

-- 
Clinton Stimpson
Elemental Technologies, Inc
Computational Simulation Software, LLC
www.csimsoft.com