On 2016-10-03 at 14:43 +0200, Stephen Kelly wrote: > Ivan Shapovalov wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > Using find modules to detect dependencies has a nice feature: it is > > then possible to edit the resulting cache entries to link to > > different > > libraries (or add other libraries along the found ones, for > > whatever > > purposes), or change directories, or flags, or whatever. > > > > Using find configs and IMPORTED targets, however, prevents doing > > this, > > because IMPORTED targets are not stored in CMake cache. This can be > > a > > significant disadvantage at times. > > Can you be more specific? > > Why can the user provide better information than the supplier of the > IMPORTED target? > > Thanks, > > Steve. > >
Well, sometimes you need to do certain "maintainer-specific" overrides: include custom headers before everything, link to custom libraries before everything and so on. Think LD_PRELOAD, but at link time. -- Ivan Shapovalov / intelfx /
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