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| author | Wilfried Goesgens <willi@arangodb.com> | 2017-02-21 15:33:06 +0100 |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-02-21 10:32:25 -0500 |
| commit | 4b21290e204d02dd39f6ac404ba923d546f40925 (patch) | |
| tree | 62e9b68f2d94cd918af189f52f010e89c6c8a870 /Modules | |
| parent | 6cbad490c2fdbd9bdc67b406b9f2dcdc21e08ddb (diff) | |
| download | cmake-4b21290e204d02dd39f6ac404ba923d546f40925.tar.gz | |
ExternalProject: Clarify documented role of `INSTALL_COMMAND`
It is for the install step of the external project and does not
affect installation of the calling project.
Diffstat (limited to 'Modules')
| -rw-r--r-- | Modules/ExternalProject.cmake | 6 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake b/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake index 458c114841..325fbc398a 100644 --- a/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake +++ b/Modules/ExternalProject.cmake @@ -176,7 +176,11 @@ Create custom targets to build projects in external trees ``INSTALL_DIR <dir>`` Installation prefix ``INSTALL_COMMAND <cmd>...`` - Command to drive install after build + Command to drive installation of the external project after it has been + built. This only happens at the *build* time of the calling project. + In order to install files from the external project alongside the + locally-built files, a separate local :command:`install` call must be + added to pick the files up from one of the external project trees. Test step options are: |