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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-02-24 11:45:49 -0500
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-02-24 13:44:27 -0500
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Help: Refactor PDB_NAME and PDB_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY docs
Move the note about VS 6 into the PDB_NOTE.txt common include file and include it from the per-config properties too. Also re-word the note to clarify the separate compiler and linker flags involved and state explicitly that compiler flags are not affected.
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is invoked to produce them so they have no linker-generated ``.pdb`` file
containing debug symbols.
- The compiler-generated program database files specified by the MSVC
- ``/Fd`` flag are not the same as linker-generated program database
- files and so are not influenced by this property.
+ The linker-generated program database files are specified by the
+ ``/pdb`` linker flag and are not the same as compiler-generated
+ program database files specified by the ``/Fd`` compiler flag.
+ This property does not influence the latter.
+
+ This property is not implemented by the :generator:`Visual Studio 6`
+ generator.