[cmake-developers] Fwd: [CMake] link only with targets feature

[Alexander Neundorf]

On 2019 M02 12, Tue 08:34:57 CET Timothy Wrona wrote:
> I saw this email come through the cmake users mailing list but feel it is
> more fitting for it to go to cmake-developers so I'm forwarding it here.
> 
> It is a pretty long rant, but I think his idea to add a keyword to the
> "target_link_libraries()" command that would only look for cmake targets is
> a pretty great idea. I dont think it would break backwards compatibility
> either.
> 
> For example:
> 
> target_link_libraries(mytarget
>   LINK_TARGETS
>     target1
>     target1
> )
> 
> This would only search for CMake targets to link to and would not search
> for libraries with the same name. It would make adding alias namespace to
> targets not necessary anymore and would potentially make a lot of code look
> cleaner.

(I already replied on the cmake-list before I saw this here).
I would prefer if this could be combined with the include-directories via 
linking feature.
E.g. a command target_link_targets() which accepts only targets, and which has 
the include-directories features, and a policy to disable the include-
directories via target_link_libraries().

Alex