[cmake-developers] INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES on STATIC libs

[Stephen Kelly]

Brad King wrote:

> On 02/07/2013 06:23 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> Yes. This is a little inconvenient though. I wonder if we could allow tll
>> with object libraries? The call would set the includes and defines just
>> like any other target, and would not have any effect on linking, because
>> that is not appropriate for object libraries anyway.
> 
> I don't want to give the impression that object libraries can be linked
> by allowing them in tll.  The semantics are hard to define because the
> usual transitive effects do not make sense.  Since using them in tll is
> an error now we can always add it later.  Since object libraries cannot
> be installed or exported usage requirements on them are less important.
> 

Yes, that makes sense.

Thanks,

Steve.