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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2015-03-31 08:55:16 -0400 |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2015-03-31 08:58:11 -0400 |
| commit | c46125dfac88d566f0bac380bbdee845e839082f (patch) | |
| tree | 60014eaba9c7790fd79ca4c63f87890addbe9339 /Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst | |
| parent | d51c1f090a5df5a8cd8d58faeee3544b52463924 (diff) | |
| download | cmake-c46125dfac88d566f0bac380bbdee845e839082f.tar.gz | |
Help: Refine COMPILE_OPTIONS property documentation
Make wording of the directory and target properties more consitent
and complementary. Specify that the value is a ";-list" with a link
to the cmake-language(7) manual section on lists.
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst index 27cbec15f2..36d786a7fb 100644 --- a/Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst @@ -3,12 +3,13 @@ COMPILE_OPTIONS List of options to pass to the compiler. -This property specifies the list of options specified so far for this -property. +This property holds a :ref:`;-list <CMake Language Lists>` of options +specified so far for its target. Use the :command:`target_compile_options` +command to append more options. This property is intialized by the :prop_dir:`COMPILE_OPTIONS` directory -property, which is used by the generators to set the options for the -compiler. +property when a target is created, and is used by the generators to set +the options for the compiler. Contents of ``COMPILE_OPTIONS`` may use "generator expressions" with the syntax ``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` manual |