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| author | Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> | 2013-11-05 18:15:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> | 2013-11-07 10:06:40 (GMT) |
| commit | 596b2a8c0820bed8195e2377927a18cf2d76727c (patch) | |
| tree | 093b7a88d4d3b32dffce49dce5d57d27ceeaa1aa /Help/policy/CMP0039.rst | |
| parent | 301bb5cdda081f0bef0702e41ae4b47102b235df (diff) | |
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Disallow linking to utility targets (#13902).
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diff --git a/Help/policy/CMP0039.rst b/Help/policy/CMP0039.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1d20f0c --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/policy/CMP0039.rst @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +CMP0039 +------- + +Utility targets may not have link dependencies + +CMake 2.8.12 and lower allowed using utility targets in the left hand side +position of the :command:`target_link_libraries` command. This is an indicator +of a bug in user code. + +The OLD behavior for this policy is to ignore attempts to set the link +libraries of utility targets. The NEW behavior for this policy is to +report an error if an attempt is made to set the link libraries of a +utility target. + +This policy was introduced in CMake version 3.0.0. CMake version +|release| warns when the policy is not set and uses OLD behavior. Use +the cmake_policy command to set it to OLD or NEW explicitly. |