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  1. CMP0022
  2. -------
  3. INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES defines the link interface.
  4. CMake 2.8.11 constructed the 'link interface' of a target from
  5. properties matching ``(IMPORTED_)?LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES(_<CONFIG>)?``.
  6. The modern way to specify config-sensitive content is to use generator
  7. expressions and the ``IMPORTED_`` prefix makes uniform processing of the
  8. link interface with generator expressions impossible. The
  9. INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES target property was introduced as a
  10. replacement in CMake 2.8.12. This new property is named consistently
  11. with the INTERFACE_COMPILE_DEFINITIONS, INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES
  12. and INTERFACE_COMPILE_OPTIONS properties. For in-build targets, CMake
  13. will use the INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES property as the source of the
  14. link interface only if policy CMP0022 is NEW. When exporting a target
  15. which has this policy set to NEW, only the INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES
  16. property will be processed and generated for the IMPORTED target by
  17. default. A new option to the install(EXPORT) and export commands
  18. allows export of the old-style properties for compatibility with
  19. downstream users of CMake versions older than 2.8.12. The
  20. target_link_libraries command will no longer populate the properties
  21. matching LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES(_<CONFIG>)? if this policy is NEW.
  22. Warning-free future-compatible code which works with CMake 2.8.7 onwards
  23. can be written by using the ``LINK_PRIVATE`` and ``LINK_PUBLIC`` keywords
  24. of :command:`target_link_libraries`.
  25. The OLD behavior for this policy is to ignore the
  26. INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES property for in-build targets. The NEW
  27. behavior for this policy is to use the INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES
  28. property for in-build targets, and ignore the old properties matching
  29. ``(IMPORTED_)?LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES(_<CONFIG>)?``.
  30. This policy was introduced in CMake version 2.8.12. CMake version
  31. |release| warns when the policy is not set and uses OLD behavior. Use
  32. the cmake_policy command to set it to OLD or NEW explicitly.
  33. .. include:: DEPRECATED.txt