[CMake] Is it safe to add properties to custom target?

[Marcel Loose]

On Thu, 2009-12-10 at 22:24 +0100, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 December 2009, Marcel Loose wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > In fact the subject title says it all. Is it safe to do, for example:
> >
> > add_custom_target(myTarget)
> > set_target_properties(myTarget PROPERTIES
> >   LOCATION ${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR})
> >
> > It seems to work fine, but I'm not sure this is the right way to do it.
> 
> What should this do ?
> It is safe to add your own custom properties, so you can query them later. If 
> you want to force cmake to do something special by setting the LOCATION 
> property, I'm sure either this doesn't work or this works accidentially but 
> is not supported.
> 
> Alex

Hi Alex,

I was considering to set this property for custom targets in analogy
with the LOCATION and LOCATION_<CONFIG> properties that are set for
library and executable targets. I'm aware of the fact that I will need
to handle this property myself; that CMake won't know anything about it.
But I was concerned that it might clash with a future release of CMake,
if support for the LOCATION property for custom targets were added to
CMake.

Best regards,
Marcel Loose.