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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2013-04-30 09:09:23 -0400 |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2013-04-30 09:15:03 -0400 |
| commit | 2618e0257e5c6fdca4137b371153fbf1152cbef5 (patch) | |
| tree | 53bafe62ba861971300af56eb7c106ea48e0ba09 /Source | |
| parent | 78185f598c152b1dbce632e953874ce8132c5fe9 (diff) | |
| download | cmake-2618e0257e5c6fdca4137b371153fbf1152cbef5.tar.gz | |
target_link_libraries: Update usage requirements documentation
Re-word the documentation to make clear that CMake integrates usage
requirements during generation and not synchronously during
configuration or execution of target_link_libraries.
Diffstat (limited to 'Source')
| -rw-r--r-- | Source/cmTargetLinkLibrariesCommand.h | 19 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Source/cmTargetLinkLibrariesCommand.h b/Source/cmTargetLinkLibrariesCommand.h index aaabdfa3aa..c683016ddb 100644 --- a/Source/cmTargetLinkLibrariesCommand.h +++ b/Source/cmTargetLinkLibrariesCommand.h @@ -97,14 +97,17 @@ public: "Calls to other signatures of this command may set the property " "making any libraries linked exclusively by this signature private." "\n" - "Target usage requirements are also consumed by this command. If the " - "<target> is linked to another target which has " - "a populated INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES, the content of it is " - "appended to the INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES of <target>. Similarly, the " - "INTERFACE_COMPILE_DEFINITONS of a dependee are added to the " - "COMPILE_DEFINITONS of <target>, and the " - "INTERFACE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE property is used to determine the " - "POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE property of <target>." + "CMake will also propagate \"usage requirements\" from linked library " + "targets. " + "Usage requirements affect compilation of sources in the <target>. " + "They are specified by properties defined on linked targets. " + "During generation of the build system, CMake integrates " + "usage requirement property values with the corresponding " + "build properties for <target>:\n" + " INTERFACE_COMPILE_DEFINITONS: Appends to COMPILE_DEFINITONS\n" + " INTERFACE_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES: Appends to INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES\n" + " INTERFACE_POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE: Sets POSITION_INDEPENDENT_CODE\n" + " or checked for consistency with existing value\n" "\n" " target_link_libraries(<target> LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES\n" " [[debug|optimized|general] <lib>] ...)\n" |