Incorrect OTHER_CFLAGS

[eahrold]

I have multiple targets in a project defined in the pod file as such...

source 'https://github.com/CocoaPods/Specs.git'
platform :osx, "10.8"

Proj = ["Project", "ProjectTests"]

Proj.each { |tar|
    target tar do
        pod 'AFNetworking', '~> 2.5.4'
        pod 'Sparkle', '1.8'
        pod 'XMLDictionary', '~> 1.4'
        pod 'mailcore2-osx', '~> 0.5'
        pod 'AHProxySettings', '~> 0.1.1'
        pod 'AHKeychain', '~> 0.2.1'
        pod 'AHLaunchCtl'
    end
}

target "com.project.helper", :exclusive => true do
    pod 'AHLaunchCtl',
    pod 'AHKeychain', '~> 0.2.1'
    pod 'RNCryptor', '~> 2.2'
end

However the resulting Pods-com.project.helper.release.xcconfig looks like this.

GCC_PREPROCESSOR_DEFINITIONS = $(inherited) COCOAPODS=1
HEADER_SEARCH_PATHS = "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public" "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/AFNetworking" "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/AHKeychain" "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/AHLaunchCtl" "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/AHProxySettings" "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/RNCryptor" "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/Sparkle" "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/XMLDictionary" "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/mailcore2-osx" "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/mailcore2-osx/MailCore"
OTHER_CFLAGS = $(inherited) -isystem "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public" -isystem "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/AFNetworking" -isystem "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/AHKeychain" -isystem "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/AHLaunchCtl" -isystem "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/AHProxySettings" -isystem "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/RNCryptor" -isystem "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/Sparkle" -isystem "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/XMLDictionary" -isystem "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/mailcore2-osx" -isystem "${PODS_ROOT}/Headers/Public/mailcore2-osx/MailCore"
OTHER_LDFLAGS = -ObjC -l"Pods-com.project.helper-AHKeychain" -l"Pods-com.project.helper-AHLaunchCtl" -l"Pods-com.project.helper-RNCryptor" -framework "Foundation" -framework "Security" -framework "ServiceManagement" -framework "SystemConfiguration"
OTHER_LIBTOOLFLAGS = $(OTHER_LDFLAGS)
PODS_ROOT = ${SRCROOT}/Pods

So the helper xcconfig file looks as though it's adding all of the OTHER_CFLAGS from the main project as well (for example mailCore2 should not be included).

Consequently in order to get things to compile I must explicitly add the libPods-com.project.helper-xyz lib to the "Link With Libraries" build phase. The libPods-com.project.helper lib alone does not work.

Any advice?
Thanks.

[segiddins]

I believe this is the intended behavior when using exclusive, but I'm not sure?

[eahrold]

I recently added that to the Podfile to see if that changed the behavior. Same results either way.

[neonichu]

I'm curious to why additional include paths in OTHER_CFLAGS would require changes in linked libraries at all. Unless you import headers from one of the not-linked Pods, this shouldn't happen.