From cb69f750bfe650b3170e9c098ceacdc633b63c3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2025 17:41:41 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] cmGeneratorTarget: Factor out helper to detect LINK_LIBRARIES
 evaluation

---
 Source/cmGeneratorTarget_TransitiveProperty.cxx | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Source/cmGeneratorTarget_TransitiveProperty.cxx b/Source/cmGeneratorTarget_TransitiveProperty.cxx
index 81072f28b9..4f3c478806 100644
--- a/Source/cmGeneratorTarget_TransitiveProperty.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmGeneratorTarget_TransitiveProperty.cxx
@@ -30,6 +30,11 @@
 namespace {
 using UseTo = cmGeneratorTarget::UseTo;
 using TransitiveProperty = cmGeneratorTarget::TransitiveProperty;
+
+bool ComputingLinkLibraries(cmGeneratorExpressionDAGChecker const* dagChecker)
+{
+  return dagChecker && dagChecker->IsComputingLinkLibraries();
+}
 }
 
 std::map<cm::string_view, TransitiveProperty> const
@@ -206,7 +211,7 @@ cmGeneratorTarget::IsTransitiveProperty(
         result->Usage = cmGeneratorTarget::UseTo::Compile;
       }
     }
-  } else if (!dagChecker || !dagChecker->IsComputingLinkLibraries()) {
+  } else if (!ComputingLinkLibraries(dagChecker)) {
     // Honor TRANSITIVE_COMPILE_PROPERTIES and TRANSITIVE_LINK_PROPERTIES
     // from the link closure when we are not evaluating the closure itself.
     CustomTransitiveProperties const& ctp =