CMP0028: Report the target whose link interface has an offending item

Previously items linked via the link interface of a dependency were
reported in CMP0028 messages as if directly linked by a target.
Clarify the messages to indicate that an offending item is actually
in the link interface of a given target, regardless of its consumer.

Move the check to the end of generation and look through the final set
of link implementations and link interfaces that were used for
generation.  This avoids repeating messages on link interfaces that
have multiple consumers.

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.h b/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.h
index 110af43..096e2ea 100644
--- a/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.h
+++ b/Source/cmGeneratorTarget.h
@@ -84,6 +84,10 @@ public:
   cmComputeLinkInformation* GetLinkInformation(
     const std::string& config) const;
 
+  // Perform validation checks on memoized link structures.
+  // Call this after generation is complete.
+  void CheckLinkLibraries() const;
+
   cmStateEnums::TargetType GetType() const;
   const std::string& GetName() const;
   std::string GetExportName() const;
@@ -973,6 +977,13 @@ private:
   cmLinkImplementation const* GetLinkImplementation(const std::string& config,
                                                     bool secondPass) const;
 
+  enum class LinkItemRole
+  {
+    Implementation,
+    Interface,
+  };
+  bool VerifyLinkItemColons(LinkItemRole role, cmLinkItem const& item) const;
+
   // Cache import information from properties for each configuration.
   struct ImportInfo
   {