[cmake-developers] Listing all targets

[David Cole]

Thanks for the comments. I'll incorporate these into my next iteration...

On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Brad King <brad.king at kitware.com> wrote:
> On 07/17/2015 06:05 PM, David Cole via cmake-developers wrote:
>> Attached is a patch file of my first attempt. I can iterate some more
>> on this (better testing, add docs, clarify existing docs, address
>> anybody's comments, submit to stage) next week. Attached now in case
>> anybody wants to try it out over the weekend.
> [snip]
>>> I think the see also is relevant because it points to another way to
>>> get to a whole different set of "properties". Perhaps what they're
>>> looking for when they stumble upon get_cmake_property is actually
>>> target properties, which are only accessible via get_property.
>
> get_cmake_property is get_property with the GLOBAL scope, except that
> it looks like the special VARIABLES, MACROS, and COMPONENTS properties
> are hard-coded into get_cmake_property incorrectly.
>
> This should all be moved over to cmState::GetGlobalProperty and the
> new TARGETS property added there.  That method already has special
> handling for a few other properties too.
>
> Also the documentation of get_cmake_property should be updated to
> mention "global" properties.
>
> -Brad
>
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