documentation: handling of relative paths by include- and link_directories()

Alex

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmLinkDirectoriesCommand.h b/Source/cmLinkDirectoriesCommand.h
index 889118cbca..9218f448d9 100644
--- a/Source/cmLinkDirectoriesCommand.h
+++ b/Source/cmLinkDirectoriesCommand.h
@@ -62,10 +62,8 @@ public:
       "  link_directories(directory1 directory2 ...)\n"
       "Specify the paths in which the linker should search for libraries. "
       "The command will apply only to targets created after it is called. "
-      "For historical reasons, relative paths given to this command are "
-      "passed to the linker unchanged "
-      "(unlike many CMake commands which interpret them relative to the "
-      "current source directory).\n"
+      "Relative paths given to this command are interpreted as relative to "
+      "the current source directory, see CMP0015. \n"
       "Note that this command is rarely necessary.  Library locations "
       "returned by find_package() and find_library() are absolute paths.  "
       "Pass these absolute library file paths directly to the "