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| author | Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> | 2014-12-04 22:30:20 (GMT) |
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| committer | Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> | 2014-12-04 22:33:50 (GMT) |
| commit | 31452416ba1be692b55ed09f8cf39fa2914ad349 (patch) | |
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Help: Add useful links to IMPORTED targets and usage requirements.
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diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-developer.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-developer.7.rst index f054d83..d928097 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-developer.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-developer.7.rst @@ -730,10 +730,9 @@ below. This is what most of the existing find modules provided by CMake do. The more modern approach is to behave as much like -``<package>Config.cmake`` files as possible, by providing imported -targets. As well as matching how ``*Config.cmake`` files work, the -libraries, include directories and compile definitions are all set just -by using the target in a :command:`target_link_libraries` call. +:ref:`config file packages <Config File Packages>` files as possible, by +providing :ref:`imported target <Imported targets>`. This has the advantage +of propagating :ref:`Target Usage Requirements` to consumers. In either case (or even when providing both variables and imported targets), find modules should provide backwards compatibility with old |