ENH: Make static library targets depend on targets to which they "link" for the purpose of build ordering. This makes the build order consistent for static and shared library builds. It is also useful when custom command inputs of one library are generated as custom commands outputs of another. It may be useful in the future for Fortran module dependencies. Implemented for Makefiles, Xcode, and VS 8 and above. Added sample code to do it for VS 7.1 and below, but left it disabled with comments explaining why. Likely it will never be needed on VS 7.1 or below anyway.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.h b/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.h
index b7250a1..534258a 100644
--- a/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.h
+++ b/Source/cmGlobalVisualStudio8Generator.h
@@ -59,8 +59,7 @@ public:
 
 protected:
 
-  // Utility target fix is not needed for VS8.
-  virtual void FixUtilityDepends() {}
+  virtual bool VSLinksDependencies() const { return false; }
 
   static cmVS7FlagTable const* GetExtraFlagTableVS8();
   virtual void AddPlatformDefinitions(cmMakefile* mf);