Allow external projects to be explicitly linked; use target...() APIs to control target name

src/base/config.lua

@@ -284,7 +284,8 @@
 		-- Iterate all of the links listed in the configuration and boil
 		-- them down to the requested data set
 
-		table.foreachi(cfg.links, function(link)
+		for i = 1, #cfg.links do
+			local link = cfg.links[i]
 			local item
 
 			-- Sort the links into "sibling" (is another project in this same
@@ -300,15 +301,9 @@
 				if prjcfg and (kind == "dependencies" or config.canLink(cfg, prjcfg)) then
 
 					-- Yes; does the caller want the whole project config or only part?
-
 					if part == "object" then
 						item = prjcfg
-
-					-- Just some part of the path. Grab the whole thing now, split it up
-					-- below. Skip external projects, because I have no way to know their
-					-- target file (without parsing the project, which I'm not doing)
-
-					elseif not prj.external then
+					else
 						item = project.getrelative(cfg.project, prjcfg.linktarget.fullpath)
 					end
 
@@ -348,7 +343,7 @@
 				table.insert(result, item)
 			end
 
-		end)
+		end
 
 		return result
 	end

tests/config/test_links.lua

@@ -104,24 +104,6 @@
 	end
 
 
---
--- References to external projects should not appear in any results that
--- use file paths, since there is no way to know what the actual library
--- path might be. It is okay to return project objects though (right?)
---
-
-	function suite.skipsExternalProjectRefs()
-		links { "MyProject2" }
-
-		external "MyProject2"
-		kind "StaticLib"
-		language "C++"
-
-		local r = prepare("all", "fullpath")
-		test.isequal({}, r)
-	end
-
-
 --
 -- Managed C++ projects should ignore links to managed assemblies, which
 -- are designated with an explicit ".dll" extension.

tests/tools/test_gcc.lua

@@ -374,23 +374,6 @@
 	end
 
 
---
--- Skip external projects when building the list of linked
--- libraries, since I don't know the actual output target.
---
-
-	function suite.skipsExternalProjectRefs()
-		links { "MyProject2" }
-
-		external "MyProject2"
-		kind "StaticLib"
-		language "C++"
-
-		prepare()
-		test.isequal({}, gcc.getlinks(cfg, false))
-	end
-
-
 --
 -- Check handling of forced includes.
 --