INTERFACE INCLUDE DIRECTORIES WARNING

Note that it is not advisable to populate the :genex: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 :genex: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.