ENH: Finished CMAKE_<CONFIG>_POSTFIX feature and documented it. The value of this variable is used when a library target is created to initialize the <CONFIG>_POSTFIX target property. The value of this property is used (even for executables) to define a per-configuration postfix on the name of the target. Also enabled use of the OUTPUT_NAME property for non-executable targets.

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Source/cmSetTargetPropertiesCommand.h b/Source/cmSetTargetPropertiesCommand.h
index 2bb9a81fc1..fdf41b15b2 100644
--- a/Source/cmSetTargetPropertiesCommand.h
+++ b/Source/cmSetTargetPropertiesCommand.h
@@ -69,7 +69,15 @@ public:
         "(for SHARED library targets).  "
         "OUTPUT_NAME sets the real name of a target when it is built and "
         "can be used to help create two targets of the same name even though "
-        "CMake requires unique logical target names.\n"
+        "CMake requires unique logical target names.  "
+        "<CONFIG>_POSTFIX sets a postfix for the real name of the target "
+        "when it is built under the configuration named by <CONFIG> "
+        "(in upper-case, such as \"DEBUG_POSTFIX\").  The value of "
+        "this property is initialized when the target is created to the "
+        "value of the variable CMAKE_<CONFIG>_POSTFIX (except for executable "
+        "targets because earlier CMake versions which did not use this "
+        "variable for executables)."
+        "\n"
         "The LINK_FLAGS property can be used to add extra flags to the "
         "link step of a target. "
         "DEFINE_SYMBOL sets the name of the preprocessor symbol defined when "