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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2013-11-03 14:23:02 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2013-11-03 14:23:02 (GMT)
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CMP0022: Update target_link_libraries plain signature documentation
Make the documentation change made by commit ef10b87c (CMP0022: Plain target_link_libraries must populate link interface, 2013-11-02) in the new location for the same documentation.
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@@ -32,13 +32,16 @@ per-configuration rules by creating and linking to IMPORTED library
targets. See the IMPORTED mode of the add_library command for more
information.
-Library dependencies are transitive by default. When this target is
-linked into another target then the libraries linked to this target
-will appear on the link line for the other target too. See the
-INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES target property to override the set of
-transitive link dependencies for a target. Calls to other signatures
-of this command may set the property making any libraries linked
-exclusively by this signature private.
+Library dependencies are transitive by default with this signature.
+When this target is linked into another target then the libraries
+linked to this target will appear on the link line for the other
+target too. This transitive "link interface" is stored in the
+INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES target property when policy CMP0022 is set to
+NEW and may be overridden by setting the property directly.
+(When CMP0022 is not set to NEW, transitive linking is builtin but may
+be overridden by the LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES property. Calls to other
+signatures of this command may set the property making any libraries
+linked exclusively by this signature private.)
CMake will also propagate "usage requirements" from linked library
targets. Usage requirements affect compilation of sources in the