Help/policy/CMP0038.rst
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Targets may not link directly to themselves.
CMake 2.8.12 and lower allowed a build target to link to itself directly with
a :command:target_link_libraries call. This is an indicator of a bug in
user code.
The OLD behavior for this policy is to ignore targets which list themselves
in their own link implementation. The NEW behavior for this policy is to
report an error if a target attempts to link to itself.
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