From 7394e342f7aac2692e17d6cd5946a0e5316b0f12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Cristian Le <cristian.le@qt.io>
Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2025 12:04:30 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add helper function `_qt_internal_get_real_target`

Also a shortcut `_qt_internal_dealias_target`

Pick-to: 6.8
Change-Id: Ic772896f7bf2f3fb05dd4799b1a8aabbc4379930
Reviewed-by: Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io>
(cherry picked from commit 86c4a179e52b096fe3825e0fb8be3a362637230f)
Reviewed-by: Qt Cherry-pick Bot <cherrypick_bot@qt-project.org>
---
 cmake/QtPublicTargetHelpers.cmake | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+)

diff --git a/cmake/QtPublicTargetHelpers.cmake b/cmake/QtPublicTargetHelpers.cmake
index b31732f56bd..d2b68d7fed5 100644
--- a/cmake/QtPublicTargetHelpers.cmake
+++ b/cmake/QtPublicTargetHelpers.cmake
@@ -514,3 +514,19 @@ function(_qt_internal_set_source_file_generated)
         PROPERTIES ${properties}
     )
 endfunction()
+
+# Get the real target checking for ALIASED_TARGET
+function(_qt_internal_get_real_target out_var target)
+    get_target_property(aliased_target "${target}" ALIASED_TARGET)
+    if(aliased_target)
+        set(${out_var} "${aliased_target}" PARENT_SCOPE)
+    else()
+        set(${out_var} "${target}" PARENT_SCOPE)
+    endif()
+endfunction()
+
+# Helpful shortcut to `_qt_internal_get_real_target` if we just need to dealias
+function(_qt_internal_dealias_target target_var)
+    _qt_internal_get_real_target(${target_var} ${${target_var}})
+    set(${target_var} "${${target_var}}" PARENT_SCOPE)
+endfunction()