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Stephen Kelly authored
This tracking was added during the development of commit 042ecf04 (Add API to calculate link-interface-dependent bool properties or error., 2013-01-06), but was never used. It was not necessary to use the content because what is really useful in that logic is to determine if a property has been implied to be null by appearing in a LINK_LIBRARIES genex. I think the motivating usecase for developing the feature of keeping track of the targets relevant to a property was that I thought it would make it possible to allow requiring granular compatibility of interface properties only for targets which depended on the interface property. Eg: add_library(foo ...) add_library(bar ...) add_executable(user ...) # Read the INTERFACE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE from bar, but not # from foo: target_link_libraries(user foo $<$<TARGET_PROPERTY:POSTITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE>:bar>) This obviously doesn't make sense. We require that INTERFACE properties are consistent across all linked targets instead.
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