[cmake-developers] push of LinkOptionsCommand topic branch

[Steve Wilson]

I’m happy to keep working on the topic as well.   I just have to let it bubble back up to the top of my queue.

SteveW

On Feb 19, 2014, at 9:27 AM, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 
> 
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