PkgConfig's IMPORTED_TARGET doesn't seem to have a `_STATIC` variant?

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Consider something like this:

find_package(PkgConfig REQUIRED)
pkg_check_modules(UV REQUIRED IMPORTED_TARGET libuv)

There doesn’t seem to be a PkgConfig::UV_STATIC target that has all the properties from running pkg-config --static. There are UV_STATIC_* variables, but no target. I could use these to make a target, I suppose, but I don’t yet have enough confidence to make sure it’s right.

I tried tracing through the macros FindPkgConfig.cmake, but I don’t understand macros enough yet to make sense of why it’s not made.

Is this an intentional omission?

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It’s probably an oversight. The initial implementation probably didn’t consider static libraries. Please file a feature request for this.

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Turns out one was filed 3 months ago! https://gitlab.kitware.com/cmake/cmake/-/issues/21714