Is it okay to use short target names such as “base” in libraries as long as they are unique to the library? The imported targets are made unique with a namespace prefix, e.g. Prefix::base.
Background: Target names could be made more unique by also prepending the prefix, e.g. prefix-base, however when using install(TARGETS prefix-base) together with install(EXPORT NAMESPACE Prefix::) I end up with the imported target name Prefix::prefix-base. I would prefer the name Prefix::base.
The generic name “base” on the other hand makes collisions with other projects likely when added as subdirectory. Is there another way to realize the imported target name Prefix::base in my CMake package while keeping my target name prefix-base?
Thanks a lot, this is exactly what I was looking for.