IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES deprecated ?

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Hi,

the documentation for IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES says it is deprecated. I would move it then to the “deprecated target properties” section if that is correct.

I guess the target property IMPORTED_LINK_DEPENDENT_LIBRARIES_ is also deprecated ?
The variable CMAKE_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES is then probably also deprecated ? Is there a non-deprecated replacement for it ?

If they are indeed all deprecated, I can create a branch to move them all to deprecated and mention it explicitly.

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While at it, should add_defintions() and the directory property DEFINITIONS also be moved to deprecated ?

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From Slack, I think that this might be for $<TARGET_RUNTIME_DLLS>. But that definitely needs double checked.

Probably not going to happen: https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/24148

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These are all documented as deprecated and can be moved to the appropriate manual section:

  • prop_tgt/IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES
  • prop_tgt/IMPORTED_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES_CONFIG
  • prop_tgt/LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES
  • prop_tgt/LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES_CONFIG

The variable

  • variable/CMAKE_LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES

should also be documented as deprecated and moved too.

All of them could be updated to use .. deprecated:: 2.8.12 markup since they were all deprecated by CMP0022 in that version.

The other IMPORTED_LINK_* properties are still in use, e.g., by install(EXPORT).