Transitive dependency checks

[Alex Merry]

On 29/01/14 17:29, Michael Palimaka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> In a some (not all) tier 3 frameworks, we check for transitive dependencies:
> 
> #NOTE: here the dependencies of dependencies are displayed as well, this
> shouldn't be needed
> #after cmake 3.0.0 is released
> find_package(...)
> 
> I think this is no longer needed since we ship CMake config files for
> each framework which pull in the required dependencies, and a number of
> frameworks already omit the transitive checks and work fine.
> 
> I'd like to start sending review requests to clean this all up unless
> anyone thinks this is not correct.

The issue, as I recall, was the *private* dependencies - ie: those not
listed in the Config.cmake file.  I'm not sure exactly what issue it
caused, though, as I never encountered any problems.  I wouldn't have
thought that dynamic linking would produce any problems anyway; maybe
static linking?  Or Windows?

Alex