[cmake-developers] Undocumented change in behavior in cmake 3.9.X (SWIG)

[Ben Boeckel]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2017 at 17:41:35 +0930, Simon Lees wrote:
> We at openSUSE have noticed a change in behavior presumably in
> swig_link_libraries in one package cproton_perl.so is now being
> generated rather then libcproton_perl.so I presume the lines generating
> the library are below (I am not familiar with the package)
> 
> swig_add_module(cproton_perl perl perl.i)
> swig_link_libraries(cproton_perl ${BINDING_DEPS} ${PERL_LIBRARY}
> -lpthread -lm)
> 
> changing to the non depreciated swig_add_libraries caries this same
> change. I have a full build log available at [1] and a build on my
> system should you require more info.
> 
> I guess the question we have is was this change intentional and
> accidentally undocumented (unless I missed it) or is there a deeper
> issue with cmake that needs fixing here.

Looks like it was added here:

    https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/merge_requests/767

as part of this commit:

    https://gitlab.kitware.com/brad.king/cmake/commit/8ed663791bdda4e726f7b3764bc75f8856724d6f

--Ben