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| author | Patrick Stotko <stotko@cs.uni-bonn.de> | 2018-05-11 16:06:53 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-05-15 14:22:35 (GMT) |
| commit | c9349cc1b94a08b4f5ed86a397e72ceed50847dd (patch) | |
| tree | d7df775c58c8f2c539e848abf7dc513a6f4d9a20 /Help | |
| parent | 743f24bac68010c0157dc0349958e09ed1784f5f (diff) | |
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target_link_libraries: Allow use with targets in other directories
Previously the command did not allow naming targets on the LHS that
were not created in the calling directory. Lift this restriction to
enable more flexible use by projects.
Fixes: #17943
Diffstat (limited to 'Help')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/release/dev/subdirectory-linking.rst | 5 |
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst b/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst index fcc2c07..6379730 100644 --- a/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst +++ b/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst @@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ All of them have the general form:: target_link_libraries(<target> ... <item>... ...) -The named ``<target>`` must have been created in the current directory by +The named ``<target>`` must have been created by a command such as :command:`add_executable` or :command:`add_library` and must not be an :ref:`ALIAS target <Alias Targets>`. Repeated calls for the same ``<target>`` append items in the order called. diff --git a/Help/release/dev/subdirectory-linking.rst b/Help/release/dev/subdirectory-linking.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1909c36 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/release/dev/subdirectory-linking.rst @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +subdirectory-linking +-------------------- + +* The :command:`target_link_libraries` command may now be called + to modify targets created outside the current directory. |