As well as the traditional variables, providing imported targets is
suggested, and the relative advantages and disadvantages briefly
discussed.
A mini-tutorial walking through creating a simple find module is
provided.
This changes the recommended version variable from Foo_VERSION_STRING to
Foo_VERSION, because there is really no need to have different variable
names for package version files vs. find modules. It notes the old
variable name, though, and suggests setting it for compatibility.
Not everything that isn't MSVC is GCC. I have support for LDC's depfile
format on its way upstream[1], but its future is uncertain. CMake should
at least support this for future depfile formats.
[1]https://github.com/martine/ninja/pull/721
Rely on evaluation in cmCustomCommandGenerator for the generators.
When tracing target dependencies, depend on the union of dependencies
for all configurations.
Restore support for the undocumented <CONFIG>_LOCATION target property
removed by commit v3.0.0-rc1~175^2 (cmTarget: Remove support for
<CONFIG>_LOCATION property, 2013-12-30) as part of the CMP0026 OLD
behavior.
489b1c23 Windows: Use response files to specify link libraries for GNU tools
745caae6 Makefile: Rename linker response file boolean to be more specific
5e8e4d0f cmLocalGenerator: Add response file option to OutputLinkLibraries
b9aa5041 cmLocalGenerator: Simplify GetIncludeFlags output formatting
971653b7 cmLocalGenerator: Add format option to ConvertToLinkReference
0c0ef9e7 cmLocalGenerator: Add format option to ConvertToIncludeReference
02bebd60 cmLocalGenerator: Add format option to ConvertToOutputForExisting
c8751709 Makefile: Factor out some duplicate link libraries generation
Work around the command-line-length limit by using an @linklibs.rsp
response file to pass the flags for link libraries. This allows
very long lists of libraries to be used in addition to the existing
support for passing object files via response file.
Suggested-by: Peter Keuschnigg <peter.keuschnigg@pmu.ac.at>
Recently used cmake-gui locations are searched only on Windows because
the Windows registry is used to record the values. This behavior is
historical and may be removed by a policy in the future so rather than
implementing it on other platforms simply document the current behavior.
This command does not support generator expressions. The documentation
was mistakenly extended to claim it in commit v3.0.0-rc1~60^2~3 (Help: Mark
up the buildsystem commands documentation, 2014-02-03).
Alex Merry
Brad King
Stephen Kelly
Ben Boeckel
Jiri Malak