[cmake-developers] Add property to get all linked libraries including transitive ones

[Stephen Kelly]

Brad King wrote:

> On 11/04/2016 09:52 AM, maikel van den Hurk wrote:
>> What about doing what was targeted with this bug:
>> https://cmake.org/Bug/view.php?id=12435?
> 
> That issue is now tracked here:
> 
>  https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/issues/12435
> 
> I've just added some notes to the discussion.
> 
> Steve, do you recall why $<TARGET_PROPERTY:tgt,LINK_LIBRARIES>
> is not transitive as genexes for other usage requirements are?

I believe it's because of a chicken-egg concern - the link libraries are the 
basis for transitivity for other properties. I remember discussing that in 
the mailing list back in the design phase.

Thanks,

Steve.