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diff --git a/share/cmake-3.18/Help/include/INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES_WARNING.txt b/share/cmake-3.18/Help/include/INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES_WARNING.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a54d728 --- /dev/null +++ b/share/cmake-3.18/Help/include/INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES_WARNING.txt @@ -0,0 +1,18 @@ + +Note that it is not advisable to populate the ``INSTALL_INTERFACE`` of the +|INTERFACE_PROPERTY_LINK| of a target with absolute paths to the include +directories of dependencies. That would hard-code into installed packages +the include directory paths for dependencies +**as found on the machine the package was made on**. + +The ``INSTALL_INTERFACE`` of the |INTERFACE_PROPERTY_LINK| is only +suitable for specifying the required include directories for headers +provided with the target itself, not those provided by the transitive +dependencies listed in its :prop_tgt:`INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES` target +property. Those dependencies should themselves be targets that specify +their own header locations in |INTERFACE_PROPERTY_LINK|. + +See the :ref:`Creating Relocatable Packages` section of the +:manual:`cmake-packages(7)` manual for discussion of additional care +that must be taken when specifying usage requirements while creating +packages for redistribution. |