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

[Simon Lees]

On 17/08/17 22:18, Ben Boeckel wrote:
> 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
> 

Thanks I'll update the cmake files in that package.

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