[cmake-developers] [CMake 0015823]: FIND_LIBRARY & TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES

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The following issue has been SUBMITTED. 
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https://public.kitware.com/Bug/view.php?id=15823 
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Reported By:                Anthony Ette
Assigned To:                
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Project:                    CMake
Issue ID:                   15823
Category:                   CMake
Reproducibility:            always
Severity:                   major
Priority:                   normal
Status:                     new
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Date Submitted:             2015-10-31 14:46 EDT
Last Modified:              2015-10-31 14:46 EDT
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Summary:                    FIND_LIBRARY & TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES
Description: 
On version 3.3.20150618.
I am not understanding the behavior of these two commands or am getting
inconsistent results.  Sometimes when the results of a found static library from
FIND_LIBRARY are passed to TARGET_LINK_LIBRARIES, it generates "/path/to/lib"
linker syntax BUT other times it produces a "-Wl,-Bstatic -llib -Wl,-Bdynamic"
syntax.  I've confirmed that both lib vars as returned from FIND_LIBRARY are
full paths to .a static archive files so how can the different handling at the
linker CLI be explained?

Steps to Reproduce: 
Unknown.  Some libs are handled one way and others are handled another.  The
only potential lead may be that they come from different paths on the file
system (say one from /usr/lib and another from /sim/lib/v67/ihawk).

Additional Information: 
None
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Issue History 
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2015-10-31 14:46 Anthony Ette   New Issue                                    
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