I think the documentation also fails to mention that link dependencies
propagate even when "PRIVATE" is used, if the target is a static library.





On 22 Aug 2017 4:40 pm, "Brad King" <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 08/22/2017 11:36 AM, Robert Maynard wrote:
> > The `Transitive Usage Requirements` section of the cmake-buildsystem
> > documentation quickly covers this idea but it could be elaborated on.
> > This might be a good place for a concrete example.
>
> Yes.  Showing the transitive header case as an example would be good
> to show when a dependency should be PUBLIC instead of PRIVATE.
>
> -Brad
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