CMake: target_link_libraries include as SYSTEM to suppress compiler warnings

I defined a function to handle this for me:

function(target_link_libraries_system target)
  set(libs ${ARGN})
  foreach(lib ${libs})
    get_target_property(lib_include_dirs ${lib} INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
    target_include_directories(${target} SYSTEM PRIVATE ${lib_include_dirs})
    target_link_libraries(${target} ${lib})
  endforeach(lib)
endfunction(target_link_libraries_system)

I can now call target_link_libraries_system(myapp lib::lib) and the include directories are read from the target’s properties.

This can be extended to optionally specify the PUBLIC|PRIVATE|INTERFACE scope:

function(target_link_libraries_system target)
  set(options PRIVATE PUBLIC INTERFACE)
  cmake_parse_arguments(TLLS "${options}" "" "" ${ARGN})
  foreach(op ${options})
    if(TLLS_${op})
      set(scope ${op})
    endif()
  endforeach(op)
  set(libs ${TLLS_UNPARSED_ARGUMENTS})

  foreach(lib ${libs})
    get_target_property(lib_include_dirs ${lib} INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES)
    if(lib_include_dirs)
      if(scope)
        target_include_directories(${target} SYSTEM ${scope} ${lib_include_dirs})
      else()
        target_include_directories(${target} SYSTEM PRIVATE ${lib_include_dirs})
      endif()
    else()
      message("Warning: ${lib} doesn't set INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES. No include_directories set.")
    endif()
    if(scope)
      target_link_libraries(${target} ${scope} ${lib})
    else()
      target_link_libraries(${target} ${lib})
    endif()
  endforeach()
endfunction(target_link_libraries_system)

This extended version will also print a warning if a library didn’t set its INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES property.