[cmake-developers] Setting target properties before the target is defined ?

Alexander Neundorf neundorf at kde.org
Mon Feb 18 13:32:44 EST 2013


On Monday 18 February 2013, Brad King wrote:
> On 02/18/2013 12:33 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > Or do we allow "broken" targets to exist (but not to be used)
> 
> Yes, this should be allowed IMO.  The target import files are
> effectively declarative and evaluation of dependencies should
> be lazy.
> 
> It wasn't that long ago that we started supporting dependent
> exports, so there could be plenty of packages that do not
> modularize their target exports even if they provide COMPONENTS.
> ITK is one.

Ok, so even without warning ?

Alex



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