[cmake-developers] [CMake] Why does INTERFACE type targets only support whitelisted properties?

[Taylor Braun-Jones]

On Mon, Jan 11, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmaicom> wrote:
> Taylor Braun-Jones wrote:
>
>> Consider library project Foo that uses a header-only project Bar. In
>> FooConfig.cmake, it is a important to ensure any projects using Foo also
>> use the exact same version of Bar that Foo was originally built with
>
> COMPATIBLE_INTERFACE_STRING and similar properties are designed for that use
> case.
>
> You would populate an INTERFACE_ property on the INTERFACE target, which is
> whitelisted already:
>
>  https://cmake.org/cmake/help/v3.4/manual/cmake-buildsystem.7.html#compatible-interface-properties
>
>  http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.cmake.devel/5813

Thanks - that's exactly what I was looking for!

Taylor