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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2023-03-28 10:57:31 -0400
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2023-03-28 10:57:31 -0400
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Help: Link to COMPILE_LANGUAGE genex from target_compile_options
Issue: #24639
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-rw-r--r--Help/command/target_compile_options.rst4
-rw-r--r--Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst4
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diff --git a/Help/command/target_compile_options.rst b/Help/command/target_compile_options.rst
index 698f62d60a..f3ac97bd09 100644
--- a/Help/command/target_compile_options.rst
+++ b/Help/command/target_compile_options.rst
@@ -50,6 +50,10 @@ See Also
* For file-specific settings, there is the source file property :prop_sf:`COMPILE_OPTIONS`.
+* This command adds compile options for all languages in a target.
+ Use the :genex:`COMPILE_LANGUAGE` generator expression to specify
+ per-language compile options.
+
* :command:`target_compile_features`
* :command:`target_link_libraries`
* :command:`target_link_directories`
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst
index 0fd6aac609..0dec25015d 100644
--- a/Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst
+++ b/Help/prop_tgt/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst
@@ -11,6 +11,10 @@ The options will be added after after flags in the
variables, but before those propagated from dependencies by the
:prop_tgt:`INTERFACE_COMPILE_OPTIONS` property.
+This property adds compile options for all languages in a target.
+Use the :genex:`COMPILE_LANGUAGE` generator expression to specify
+per-language compile options.
+
This property is initialized by the :prop_dir:`COMPILE_OPTIONS` directory
property when a target is created, and is used by the generators to set
the options for the compiler.