Instruct CMake to use CXX and CXXFLAGS when drivin

Question

We are catching link errors on Solaris with makefiles generated by CMake 3.6.2. In the testing below, we are using GCC and not SunCC. From the looks of it, CMake is applying our options inconsistently:

Typical compile command

[  2%] Building CXX object CMakeFiles/cryptopp-object.dir/cpu.cpp.o
/bin/c++ -fPIC -march=native -m64 -Wa,--divide -o CMakeFiles/cryptopp-object.dir/cryptlib.cpp.o 
-c /export/home/jwalton/cryptopp/cpu.cpp

Abbreviated link command

/bin/c++ CMakeFiles/cryptest.dir/bench1.cpp.o CMakeFiles/cryptest.dir/bench2.cpp.o
...
CMakeFiles/cryptest.dir/fipstest.cpp.o  -o cryptest.exe  libcryptopp.a -lnsl -lsocket

Typical link error

ld: fatal: file CMakeFiles/cryptopp-object.dir/cryptlib.cpp.o: wrong ELF class: ELFCLASS64

Notice the file was compiled with -march=native -m64 (its a 64-bit capable machine and kernel), but the link invocation is missing it (the default is 32-bit on Solaris).

Attempting to search for "cmake use CXXFLAGS link" is producing too much irrelevant noise, and I'm not having much luck finding the CMakeList.txt option. I also want to avoid duplicating the work into LDFLAGS, or performing the work of reformatting the options (CXXFLAGS option -Wl,-x becomes LDFLAGS option -x).

How do I instruct CMake to use both CXX and CXXFLAGS when driving link?

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I found Running a different program for the linker on the CMake users mailing list, but it does not feel right to me (also, the problem and context are slightly different). It also does not work.

Here is a small example:

PROJECT(foo)

SET(CMAKE_CXX_LINK_EXECUTABLE
    "purify <CMAKE_CXX_COMPILER> <CMAKE_CXX_LINK_FLAGS> <LINK_FLAGS> <FLAGS> <OBJECTS>  -o <TARGET> <LINK_LIBRARIES>")
ADD_EXECUTABLE(foo foo.cxx)

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I also found Setting global link flags on the mailing list. It does not work, either.

SET(CMAKE_EXE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
SET(CMAKE_SHARED_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")
SET(CMAKE_MODULE_LINKER_FLAGS "${CMAKE_CXX_FLAGS}")