[CMake] CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS also used for linking?

[David Cole]

On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Sean McBride <sean at rogue-research.com> wrote:
> From the lack of reply, I guess there is indeed no way to specify flags only for compiling and not for linking.
>
> Is there a bug in the Mantis for this already?
>

I don't think so, but is it really a bug in CMake?


> Sean
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>
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> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 11:12:17 -0500, Sean McBride said:
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>>Hi all,
>>
>>Searching the archives, I see that CMake deliberately passes the
>>CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS for linking too:
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>><http://www.cmake.org/pipermail/cmake/2010-July/038090.html>
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>>If I add -std=c++0x to CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS, then compilation is fine, but
>>clang will warn when linking:
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>>clang-3: warning: argument unused during compilation: '-std=c++0x'
>>
>>How does one specify flags only for compilation, not linking?
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