From 174cafb3e6075e7c82d270dfe7a0011809422178 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Viktor Szakats <commit@vsz.me>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2026 13:50:52 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] cmake: simplify `LINK_ONLY` imported target extraction

Suggested-by: Kai Pastor
Ref: https://github.com/curl/curl/pull/21654#discussion_r3425296606
Follow-up to 3c597ced16e1f3aa7bfe08609add0feaf5c8d90d #21654

Closes #22063
---
 CMake/Macros.cmake | 6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/CMake/Macros.cmake b/CMake/Macros.cmake
index f0968736b0..953c1c6ee6 100644
--- a/CMake/Macros.cmake
+++ b/CMake/Macros.cmake
@@ -267,10 +267,8 @@ macro(curl_collect_target_link_options _target)
   get_target_property(_val ${_target} INTERFACE_LINK_LIBRARIES)
   if(_val)
     foreach(_lib IN LISTS _val)
-      # E.g. via libssh2: "$<LINK_ONLY:OpenSSL::Crypto>"
-      if(_lib MATCHES "LINK_ONLY:")
-        string(REGEX MATCH "([A-Za-z0-9_-]+::[A-Za-z0-9_-]+)" _lib "${_lib}")  # Extract imported target name
-      endif()
+      # Extract imported target name from e.g. "$<LINK_ONLY:OpenSSL::Crypto>" set by libssh2
+      string(REGEX REPLACE "^\\\$<LINK_ONLY:(.*)>\$" "\\1" _lib "${_lib}")
       if(TARGET "${_lib}")
         curl_collect_target_link_options(${_lib})
       else()