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<span id="policy:CMP0023"></span><h1>CMP0023<a class="headerlink" href="#cmp0023" title="Permalink to this headline">ΒΆ</a></h1>
<p>Plain and keyword <span class="target" id="index-0-command:target_link_libraries"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../command/target_link_libraries.html#command:target_link_libraries" title="target_link_libraries"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">target_link_libraries()</span></code></a> signatures cannot be mixed.</p>
<p>CMake 2.8.12 introduced the <span class="target" id="index-1-command:target_link_libraries"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../command/target_link_libraries.html#command:target_link_libraries" title="target_link_libraries"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">target_link_libraries()</span></code></a> signature using
the <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PUBLIC</span></code>, <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">PRIVATE</span></code>, and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">INTERFACE</span></code> keywords to generalize the
<code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LINK_PUBLIC</span></code> and <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">LINK_PRIVATE</span></code> keywords introduced in CMake 2.8.7.
Use of signatures with any of these keywords sets the link interface of a
target explicitly, even if empty. This produces confusing behavior
when used in combination with the historical behavior of the plain
<span class="target" id="index-2-command:target_link_libraries"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../command/target_link_libraries.html#command:target_link_libraries" title="target_link_libraries"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">target_link_libraries()</span></code></a> signature. For example, consider the code:</p>
<div class="highlight-none notranslate"><div class="highlight"><pre><span></span>target_link_libraries(mylib A)
target_link_libraries(mylib PRIVATE B)
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<p>After the first line the link interface has not been set explicitly so
CMake would use the link implementation, A, as the link interface.
However, the second line sets the link interface to empty. In order
to avoid this subtle behavior CMake now prefers to disallow mixing the
plain and keyword signatures of <span class="target" id="index-3-command:target_link_libraries"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../command/target_link_libraries.html#command:target_link_libraries" title="target_link_libraries"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">target_link_libraries()</span></code></a> for a single
target.</p>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OLD</span></code> behavior for this policy is to allow keyword and plain
<span class="target" id="index-4-command:target_link_libraries"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../command/target_link_libraries.html#command:target_link_libraries" title="target_link_libraries"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">target_link_libraries()</span></code></a> signatures to be mixed. The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NEW</span></code> behavior for
this policy is to not to allow mixing of the keyword and plain
signatures.</p>
<p>This policy was introduced in CMake version 2.8.12. CMake version
3.23.1 warns when the policy is not set and uses <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OLD</span></code> behavior. Use
the <span class="target" id="index-0-command:cmake_policy"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../command/cmake_policy.html#command:cmake_policy" title="cmake_policy"><code class="xref cmake cmake-command docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">cmake_policy()</span></code></a> command to set it to <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OLD</span></code> or <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">NEW</span></code> explicitly.</p>
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<p class="admonition-title">Note</p>
<p>The <code class="docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">OLD</span></code> behavior of a policy is
<span class="target" id="index-0-manual:cmake-policies(7)"></span><a class="reference internal" href="../manual/cmake-policies.7.html#manual:cmake-policies(7)" title="cmake-policies(7)"><code class="xref cmake cmake-manual docutils literal notranslate"><span class="pre">deprecated</span> <span class="pre">by</span> <span class="pre">definition</span></code></a>
and may be removed in a future version of CMake.</p>
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