[cmake-developers] Why does this work - linking against a library before it has been defined ?

[Stephen Kelly]

Alexander Neundorf wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I was surprised today, something worked which I expected to fail:
> 

Can you say which version of cmake this did fail with?

Note that it is more likely to *compile* since 2.8.11 because includes and 
defines are part of the target interface, but linking should be unchanged.

Thanks,

Steve.