Ivan Shapovalov wrote: > 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.
What is a 'maintainer' in that sentence? A 'maintainer' can change the buildsystem CMake files. I suspect that's not an actor you mean. If you can be more specific maybe I will understand. Would 'wrapping' be a good solution? add_library(foo_wrapper INTERFACE) target_include_directories(foo_wrapper INTERFACE ${custom_includes} $<TARGET_PROPERTY:Foo::foo,INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES> ) target_link_libraries(foo_wrapper INTERFACE ${custom_libraries} Foo::foo ) Thanks, Steve. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Kitware offers various services to support the CMake community. For more information on each offering, please visit: CMake Support: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/support.html CMake Consulting: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/consulting.html CMake Training Courses: http://cmake.org/cmake/help/training.html Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/mailman/listinfo/cmake