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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2023-03-14 13:38:33 +0000
committerKitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>2023-03-14 09:38:41 -0400
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Merge topic 'genex-explicit-target'
2e37a20f02 Utilities/Sphinx: Allow explicit target for genex Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> Reviewed-by: Raul Tambre <raul@tambre.ee> Merge-request: !8321
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diff --git a/Help/dev/documentation.rst b/Help/dev/documentation.rst
index 8cd71b40cd..1dd23c6143 100644
--- a/Help/dev/documentation.rst
+++ b/Help/dev/documentation.rst
@@ -241,6 +241,10 @@ Document a "genex" object:
The directive requires a single argument, the generator expression name.
+The optional ``:target:`` option allows a custom target name to be specified.
+Because this will affect the ability to reference the "genex" object using the
+``:genex:`` role, this option should be used very sparingly.
+
``signature`` directive
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst
index a640c13116..9da37999b1 100644
--- a/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst
+++ b/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst
@@ -1418,6 +1418,7 @@ In the following, the phrase "the ``tgt`` filename" means the name of the
expression is being evaluated.
.. genex:: $<TARGET_PROPERTY:prop>
+ :target: TARGET_PROPERTY:prop
Value of the property ``prop`` on the target for which the expression
is being evaluated. Note that for generator expressions in