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authorCraig Scott <craig.scott@crascit.com>2020-12-11 00:11:29 (GMT)
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Help: xref variable that cmake_minimum_required() sets
The CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED_VERSION has long been set by the cmake_minimum_required() command, but the command docs never mentioned this. Only the variable's own docs stated this but the variable isn't very discoverable without it being mentioned in the command's docs as well.
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@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ dots will be seen as version component separators, resulting in the
``...<max>`` part being ignored and preserving the pre-3.12 behavior
of basing policies on ``<min>``.
+This command will set the value of the
+:variable:`CMAKE_MINIMUM_REQUIRED_VERSION` variable to ``<min>``.
+
The ``FATAL_ERROR`` option is accepted but ignored by CMake 2.6 and
higher. It should be specified so CMake versions 2.4 and lower fail
with an error instead of just a warning.