Optionally allow IMPORTED targets to be globally visible

Consider the case motivating commit e01cce28 (Allow add_dependencies()
on imported targets, 2010-11-19).  An imported target references a file
generated at build time by a custom target on which it depends.  Had the
file been built directly using add_library or add_executable its target
name would have been visible globally.  Therefore the imported target
representing the file should be globally visible also.

Teach the IMPORTED signature of add_(executable|library) to accept a new
"GLOBAL" option to make the imported target visible globally.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmAddExecutableCommand.cxx b/Source/cmAddExecutableCommand.cxx
index bac2430..6dd8e5c 100644
--- a/Source/cmAddExecutableCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmAddExecutableCommand.cxx
@@ -29,6 +29,7 @@ bool cmAddExecutableCommand
   bool use_macbundle = false;
   bool excludeFromAll = false;
   bool importTarget = false;
+  bool importGlobal = false;
   while ( s != args.end() )
     {
     if (*s == "WIN32")
@@ -51,6 +52,11 @@ bool cmAddExecutableCommand
      ++s;
      importTarget = true;
      }
+    else if(importTarget && *s == "GLOBAL")
+      {
+      ++s;
+      importGlobal = true;
+      }
     else
       {
       break;
@@ -92,7 +98,8 @@ bool cmAddExecutableCommand
       }
 
     // Create the imported target.
-    this->Makefile->AddImportedTarget(exename.c_str(), cmTarget::EXECUTABLE);
+    this->Makefile->AddImportedTarget(exename.c_str(), cmTarget::EXECUTABLE,
+                                      importGlobal);
     return true;
     }