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Linker.cmake should use target_link_options instead of target_compile_options
https://github.com/cpp-best-practices/cmake_template/blob/d19d8921771ba582824948f0cc57f849a5c6efd8/cmake/Linker.cmake#L29
From my understanding target_compile_options can be replaced by the more appropriate target_link_options.
Motivation
Functionally there's no difference, but adding linker-specific flags to the compilation step will raise warnings e.g. clang: error: argument unused during compilation: '-fuse-ld=mold' [-Werror,-Wunused-command-line-argument] in certain setups.
Example from CI in a project of mine. Treating warnings as errors means this harmless warning caused CI to fail.
Using target_link_options resolved it.
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