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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2020-04-17 12:51:03 +0000 |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2020-04-17 08:51:11 -0400 |
| commit | 0e3695b6619006a6c895444a1938d40be6197348 (patch) | |
| tree | ebbe8086be1d68518fd367bf3ae9c53e783de269 /Help | |
| parent | 8bc757c8f68d653526dce3f723950ccf221a4c6c (diff) | |
| parent | ad937fb36c6b20d210b2713f622591f3d46dce82 (diff) | |
| download | cmake-0e3695b6619006a6c895444a1938d40be6197348.tar.gz | |
Merge topic 'doc-set_property-append-empty'
ad937fb36c Help: Document that set_property APPEND ignores empty values
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !4622
Diffstat (limited to 'Help')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/set_property.rst | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/set_property.rst b/Help/command/set_property.rst index ec08c8f99c..1728c989a1 100644 --- a/Help/command/set_property.rst +++ b/Help/command/set_property.rst @@ -66,7 +66,8 @@ the property to set. Remaining arguments are used to compose the property value in the form of a semicolon-separated list. If the ``APPEND`` option is given the list is appended to any existing -property value. If the ``APPEND_STRING`` option is given the string is +property value (except that empty values are ignored and not appended). +If the ``APPEND_STRING`` option is given the string is appended to any existing property value as string, i.e. it results in a longer string and not a list of strings. When using ``APPEND`` or ``APPEND_STRING`` with a property defined to support ``INHERITED`` |