Namespace support for target names in nested projects
Currently in CMake, there seems to be a very nice option of NAMESPACE
for the INSTALL(EXPORT ...)
command. This could save a lot of trouble for the users of the project about conflicts in target names.
However, if for some reason, the project is nested inside the source tree of the user project, for example, by using git submodule
, when using add_subdirectory
to add the subproject, the target names in the subproject are fixed. So the users have to be careful about the conflict of target names.
So I guess maybe it can probably be nice if the add_subdirectory
command can have something similar to the NAMESPACE
option, so that the target names defined in the nested directory, either with or without a project
call in itself, could be renamed with a prefix in the scope of the user. Any comments or suggestions about alternatives will be appreciated!