[cmake-developers] Adding automatic checks for required targets in target-export files ?

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Sunday 17 February 2013, Brad King wrote:
> On 2/16/2013 12:32 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > There's another try now in ConfigFileTargetChecks5.
> > The export-file now warns if a target does not exist, but does not error
> > out.
> 
> I think in light of the discussion in the other thread,
> "Setting target properties before the target is defined",
> there is a valid use case for the dependencies to not
> exist when the target will not be used anyway.  We do
> not know the final intention until generation time.

The ConfigFileTargetChecks5 now uses a directory property.
It still emits the warning if a referenced target does not exist yet in the 
targets-file, I think this is a good thing, packages should be 
find_package()'ed by their order of dependencies.

Updated generated file is attached.

Alex
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