Brad King wrote: > On 01/10/2013 01:04 PM, Stephen Kelly wrote: >> the COMPATIBLE_INTERFACE_BOOL property: >> >> set_property(TARGET Qt4::QAxServer APPEND PROPERTY >> COMPATIBLE_INTERFACE_BOOL QT4_NO_LINK_QTMAIN) > > A better name may be "INTERFACE_COMPATIBLE_BOOL" since the compatibility > requirement is actually part of the interface.
Perhaps. I chose COMPATIBLE_INTERFACE_BOOL because it is not INTERFACE_*, which would imply a different convention. If you have no better compromise, I'm happy with either. > > Actually, since you made generator expressions use lazy evaluation, can't > we introduce a $<FATAL_ERROR:msg> expression that could be used inside > some condition checker to report failure? Yes, that sounds like a good idea. >> implement support in CMake for. For example, setting the CXX_STDLIB >> property on a target to libc++ would pass -stdlib=libc++ if using clang. >> What it does for other compilers is up for debate. Linking a target to a >> library with INTERFACE_CXX_STDLIB=libc++ would set the CXX_STDLIB >> property on the target libc++ too etc, and un-equal strings in that >> property would be a generate- time error. > [snip] >> Similar to my first point above, this string equality requirement could >> also be extended to users with a COMPATIBLE_INTERFACE_STRING property. > > Yes, this sounds promising for solving problems like that. Great. Thanks, Steve. -- Powered by www.kitware.com Visit other Kitware open-source projects at http://www.kitware.com/opensource/opensource.html Please keep messages on-topic and check the CMake FAQ at: http://www.cmake.org/Wiki/CMake_FAQ Follow this link to subscribe/unsubscribe: http://public.kitware.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/cmake-developers
