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-* In CMake 3.0 the :command:`target_link_libraries` command
- accidentally began allowing unquoted arguments to use
- :manual:`generator expressions <cmake-generator-expressions(7)>`
- containing a (``;`` separated) list within them. For example::
-
- set(libs B C)
- target_link_libraries(A PUBLIC $<BUILD_INTERFACE:${libs}>)
-
- This is equivalent to writing::
-
- target_link_libraries(A PUBLIC $<BUILD_INTERFACE:B C>)
-
- and was never intended to work. It did not work in CMake 2.8.12.
- Such generator expressions should be in quoted arguments::
-
- set(libs B C)
- target_link_libraries(A PUBLIC "$<BUILD_INTERFACE:${libs}>")
-
- CMake 3.1 again requires the quotes for this to work correctly.