Re: [cmake-developers] Generator Expressions and packages (Was: target_link_libraries and --start-group/--end-group ?)

2015-01-24 Thread Stephen Kelly
Robert Goulet wrote: To be honest I haven't spent much time trying to learn 'imported' libraries with CMake. It was already difficult to deal with commands that don't support generator expressions versus those that does. It wasn't clear which commands we should not try to use because of that,

Re: [cmake-developers] Generator Expressions and packages (Was: target_link_libraries and --start-group/--end-group ?)

2015-01-14 Thread Ben Boeckel
On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 16:20:52 +, Robert Goulet wrote: To be honest I haven't spent much time trying to learn 'imported' libraries with CMake. It was already difficult to deal with commands that don't support generator expressions versus those that does. It wasn't clear which commands we

Re: [cmake-developers] Generator Expressions and packages (Was: target_link_libraries and --start-group/--end-group ?)

2015-01-14 Thread Robert Goulet
misunderstood how to properly deal with that? Thanks. -Original Message- From: cmake-developers [mailto:cmake-developers-boun...@cmake.org] On Behalf Of Stephen Kelly Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 5:49 PM To: cmake-developers@cmake.org Subject: [cmake-developers] Generator Expressions and packages

[cmake-developers] Generator Expressions and packages (Was: target_link_libraries and --start-group/--end-group ?)

2015-01-13 Thread Stephen Kelly
Robert Goulet wrote: Using Brad's method of link multiplicity is too much work because we make use of packages and heavy generator expressions, making it a lot more difficult and much less elegant. Hi Robert, We have not had much external feedback from the generator expressions and IMPORTED