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

[Brad King]

On 08/15/2018 01:30 PM, Rolf Eike Beer wrote:
> 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.

What harm does their presence cause?

Please ask on the user list to see if people are using them.

I suspect they may be used by some projects to link to special runtime
libraries when cross-compiling.  We'd need to make sure there is a
better way for all such use cases before deprecating the commands.

-Brad