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-rw-r--r--Source/cmIfCommand.cxx10
-rw-r--r--Source/cmPolicies.cxx4
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Source/cmIfCommand.cxx b/Source/cmIfCommand.cxx
index 81be2126df..b51fabbd80 100644
--- a/Source/cmIfCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmIfCommand.cxx
@@ -269,10 +269,9 @@ namespace
if (cmSystemTools::IsOff(def))
{
cmPolicies* policies = makefile->GetPolicies();
- errorString = "You have used a variable or argument named \""
+ errorString = "A variable or argument named \""
+ newArg
- + "\" in a conditional statement. Please be aware of issues "
- + "related to policy CMP0012. "
+ + "\" appears in a conditional statement. "
+ policies->GetPolicyWarning(cmPolicies::CMP0012);
status = cmake::AUTHOR_WARNING;
}
@@ -285,10 +284,9 @@ namespace
if (!cmSystemTools::IsOff(def))
{
cmPolicies* policies = makefile->GetPolicies();
- errorString = "You have used a variable or argument named \""
+ errorString = "A variable or argument named \""
+ newArg
- + "\" in a conditional statement. Please be aware of issues "
- + "related to policy CMP0012. "
+ + "\" appears in a conditional statement. "
+ policies->GetPolicyWarning(cmPolicies::CMP0012);
status = cmake::AUTHOR_WARNING;
}
diff --git a/Source/cmPolicies.cxx b/Source/cmPolicies.cxx
index b6bb116b75..a7292cf813 100644
--- a/Source/cmPolicies.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmPolicies.cxx
@@ -362,7 +362,9 @@ cmPolicies::cmPolicies()
"In CMake versions 2.6.4 and lower the only boolean constants were 0 "
"and 1. Other boolean constants such as true, false, yes, no, "
"on, off, y, n, notfound, ignore (all case insensitive) were recognized "
- "in some cases but not all. In later versions of cmake these values are "
+ "in some cases but not all. "
+ "For example, the code \"if(TRUE)\" might have evaluated as false. "
+ "In later versions of cmake these values are "
"treated as boolean constants more consistently and should not be used "
"as variable names. "
"The OLD behavior for this policy is to allow variables to have names "