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| author | Christopher Tetreault <ctetreau@quicinc.com> | 2020-06-22 22:48:09 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2020-06-23 12:17:59 (GMT) |
| commit | f4b911a2c9fbf91c2f00d872c4adcef848fd51ec (patch) | |
| tree | f569caa7554870f38c90b9e7913410b2aab55a99 | |
| parent | e66fe75792a2fbe9f3ffe237c748008906ae7116 (diff) | |
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Help: Update docs for failure result of get_target_property
If `get_target_property` fails to find a value for a non-inherited
property, it appends `-NOTFOUND` to the var name and sets that as the
result, rather than setting the value of the var to `NOTFOUND`.
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/get_target_property.rst | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/get_target_property.rst b/Help/command/get_target_property.rst index 11e07ea..985b1ff 100644 --- a/Help/command/get_target_property.rst +++ b/Help/command/get_target_property.rst @@ -5,15 +5,15 @@ Get a property from a target. .. code-block:: cmake - get_target_property(VAR target property) + get_target_property(<VAR> target property) Get a property from a target. The value of the property is stored in -the variable ``VAR``. If the target property is not found, the behavior +the variable ``<VAR>``. If the target property is not found, the behavior depends on whether it has been defined to be an ``INHERITED`` property or not (see :command:`define_property`). Non-inherited properties will -set ``VAR`` to ``NOTFOUND``, whereas inherited properties will search the -relevant parent scope as described for the :command:`define_property` -command and if still unable to find the property, ``VAR`` will be set to +set ``<VAR>`` to ``<VAR>-NOTFOUND``, whereas inherited properties will search +the relevant parent scope as described for the :command:`define_property` +command and if still unable to find the property, ``<VAR>`` will be set to an empty string. Use :command:`set_target_properties` to set target property values. |