CMake/Tests/CMakeCommands/target_link_libraries
Stephen Kelly 48a4cf2182 Revert "Allow target_link_libraries with IMPORTED targets."
This reverts commit 9cfe4f1b769597bd9ba179eba46572a9df27f64c.

It turns out that correctly adding the content to
the IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBARIES_<CONFIG> of an upstream target
from the buildsystem of a downstream project is not simple.

If upstream had added the INTERFACE content, the config-specific
properties would  be determined by the DEBUG_CONFIGURATIONS of
upstream.

As downstream, we don't have any information about what
the DEBUG_CONFIGURATIONS of upstream were, so we can't determine
which configuration-specific properties to populate. The best we can do
is add it to all of them or add it to the ones downstream considers to
be DEBUG_CONFIGURATIONS, neither of which is a good solution.

So, removing the porcelain API for that is the best approach. A human
can still determine which properties to populate and use
the set_property API to populate the desired properies.

Another solution to this would be for upstream targets to publish
what they consider DEBUG_CONFIGURATIONS, but that can be added in
a future release.
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