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Fix importing TileDB in CMake versions prior to 3.18. (#4671)
#4528 introduced a single `TileDB::tiledb`exported CMake target for TileDB with either static or dynamic linkage. For compatibility with previous versions, the targets `TileDB::tiledb_shared` or `TileDB::tiledb_static` were also defined depending on the linkage, as `ALIAS`es to `TileDB::tiledb`. As it turns out however, we cannot use `ALIAS` targets, because they are always declared in the global scope prior to CMake 3.18 and if `find_package(TileDB)` is not called in the top-level `CMakeLists.txt` file, it will fail with `add_library cannot create ALIAS target "TileDB::tiledb_shared" because target "TileDB::tiledb" is imported but not globally visible.`. Nor can we switch to using `IMPORTED INTERFACE` targets and linking them to `TileDB::tiledb`, because it would bring a minor breaking change[^1]. Because `TileDB::tiledb_shared` would become an `INTERFACE` library, it does not have an `IMPORTED_LOCATION` anymore, which would cause [calls to `install_target_libs(TileDB::tiledb_shared)`](https://github.com/TileDB-Inc/TileDB-VCF/blob/5bcc79b07935ac540c56bf6ed9ee0f5d60bf247e/libtiledbvcf/cmake/Modules/FindTileDB_EP.cmake#L121) to fail. Thankfully there is another solution. We set the [`EXPORT_NAME`](https://cmake.org/cmake/help/latest/prop_tgt/EXPORT_NAME.html) of the `tiledb` target to either `tiledb_shared` or `tiledb_static` depending on the linkage, and define `TileDB::tiledb` as an `IMPORTED INTERFACE` target[^2] to the linkage-specific target. This maintains full compatibility. [^1]: Something similar is the "breaking build system change" I talked about in #4408 (comment). After removing the `install_target_libs` calls from this repository, the change in Curl did not afffect us and we could update much more easily. [^2]: In this opposite case the unified target _must_ be an `IMPORTED INTERFACE`. We cannot get the `IMPORTED_LOCATION` of `TileDB::tiledb`, but since the target is new this is not a breaking change. --- TYPE: BUILD DESC: Fix importing TileDB in CMake versions prior to 3.18. (cherry picked from commit ad0371f)
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