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

[Stephen Kelly]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> 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.

Note that I have merged the try_compile-targets branch into next. Your 
branch still merges cleanly into next, but the result does not build 
(because of changed pure-virtual methods).

I recommend you don't try to merge ConfigFileTargetChecks5 into next until 
try_compile-targets is merged to master. At that point, you can rebase 
ConfigFileTargetChecks5 to master, fix it where needed, and merge it to 
next.

Thanks,

Steve.