[cmake-developers] RfD: deprecate link_directories() and link_libraries()

[Rolf Eike Beer]

My dislike against these functions is probably known, and now I would like to 
bring this to a new level: I would like to formally deprecate these functions. 
I don't think they serve any useful purpose anymore, given that now even the 
pkg-config module can (and does) return absolute paths to the libraries.

The plan is to introduce 2 new policies and whenever you set

 cmake_minimum_required(VERSION 3.13)

and use these functions you will get a warning telling you to stop that 
nonsense.

Thoughts?

Eike
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