[cmake-developers] Generator Expressions and packages (Was: target_link_libraries and --start-group/--end-group ?)

[Stephen Kelly]

Robert Goulet wrote:

> To be honest I haven't spent much time trying to learn 'imported'
> libraries with CMake. It was already difficult to deal with commands that
> don't support generator expressions versus those that does. It wasn't
> clear which commands we should not try to use because of that, and in the
> end we had to rewrite part of the CMakeLists.txt file because we wanted to
> use generator expressions and packages.

The commands which accept generator expressions document that they support 
generator expressions. I'm not aware of any gaps there.

I have had a note locally to add more-comprehensive linking in the other 
direction from 

 http://www.cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.1/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.html

but it's not done yet.

Thanks for the feedback!

Steve.