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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-04-10 09:58:52 -0400 |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-04-10 09:58:52 -0400 |
| commit | 07790796fc32105c672f4fc6a3d2aa77611c652f (patch) | |
| tree | 526674824aabfc018553aabc996f8b5c7dad0277 | |
| parent | 07cc72502d25a0bdeeeaf9e4b52b56e6c01bc3cb (diff) | |
| parent | d039f7414f9acc28ad1e51e775e888688f51a706 (diff) | |
| download | cmake-07790796fc32105c672f4fc6a3d2aa77611c652f.tar.gz | |
Merge branch 'clarifyFileGenerateDocs' into release
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/file.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Help/command/file.rst b/Help/command/file.rst index 3e669c24dc..b2e4eea444 100644 --- a/Help/command/file.rst +++ b/Help/command/file.rst @@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ Exactly one ``CONTENT`` or ``INPUT`` option must be given. A specific Generated files are modified on subsequent cmake runs only if their content is changed. +Note also that ``file(GENERATE)`` does not create the output file until the +generation phase. The output file will not yet have been written when the +``file(GENERATE)`` command returns, it is written only after processing all +of a project's ``CMakeLists.txt`` files. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ :: |