[cmake-developers] push of LinkOptionsCommand topic branch

[Stephen Kelly]

Brad King wrote:

> On 02/19/2014 11:00 AM, Stephen Kelly wrote:
>> I've been waiting for master to re-open for features before working on
>> it.
> 
> It is now open for post-3.0 development :)

Yep, great. Much better than waiting for weeks during RC phase. :)

>> Consider splitting the use-cases and adding both
>> {INTERFACE_,}LINK_OPTIONS and {INTERFACE_,}ARCHIVE_OPTIONS instead.
> 
> Yes.  That will be consistent with LINK_FLAGS/STATIC_LIBRARY_FLAGS
> but with better naming.
> 
 
>> My preference currently is the former, and have CMake do transformation
>> if passing options to the compiler driver, assuming cmake can tell the
>> difference between that and an actual linker.
> 
> Yes, that makes sense.  It may take some work in the platform info
> file rule variables so that the generators can tell when they are
> invoking the linker directly v. through a compiler, and what the
> wrapper option (-Wl,) for the compiler should be.


Those are the only two issues I know of. This topic isn't a high priority 
for me though. I'll be working on other topics first.

Thanks,

Steve.