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

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Feb 18 15:02:10 EST 2013


On 02/18/2013 01:32 PM, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> 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 ?

Yes, please.

Thanks,
-Brad



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