[cmake-developers] [CMake 0014495]: Spurious error about non-existent INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES of IMPORTED target

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Sun Oct 20 12:55:53 EDT 2013


The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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http://www.cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=14495 
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Reported By:                Nick Hutchinson
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   14495
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   minor
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2013-10-21 05:55 NZDT
Last Modified:              2013-10-21 05:55 NZDT
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Summary:                    Spurious error about non-existent
INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES of IMPORTED target
Description: 
CMake seems to demand that the directories referenced by the
INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES property of an IMPORTED target can be found at
configure-time. This is quite unhelpful if those directories are only generated
generated as part of the build. 

You get the following error:
> Imported target "XXX" includes non-existent path
> 
>     "YYY"
> 
>   in its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.  Possible reasons include:
> 
>   * The path was deleted, renamed, or moved to another location.
> 
>   * An install or uninstall procedure did not complete successfully.
> 
>   * The installation package was faulty and references files it does not
>   provide.

Workaround is add a `file(MAKE_DIRECTORY YYY)` command to the CMakeLists.txt
file.

Steps to Reproduce: 
> cat <<-EOF > CMakeLists.txt

cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 2.8.12)
add_library(foo STATIC IMPORTED GLOBAL)
set_property(TARGET foo PROPERTY INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
"${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/include")

EOF

> cmake -GNinja .
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Issue History 
Date Modified    Username       Field                    Change               
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2013-10-21 05:55 Nick HutchinsonNew Issue                                    
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