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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-04-10 14:01:00 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2017-04-10 14:01:11 (GMT) |
| commit | 5e95a9908858cbfeb46c456f14a1f6c9e9041b1c (patch) | |
| tree | 480139f213756528c306a6d41657cb3701dc28ba | |
| parent | 54d8c0db00d0eeb27dc7abf9d67df74801c8d907 (diff) | |
| parent | d039f7414f9acc28ad1e51e775e888688f51a706 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'clarifyFileGenerateDocs'
d039f741 Help: Clarify file(GENERATE) only writes output file at generation phase
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !681
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diff --git a/Help/command/file.rst b/Help/command/file.rst index 3e669c2..b2e4eea 100644 --- a/Help/command/file.rst +++ b/Help/command/file.rst @@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ Exactly one ``CONTENT`` or ``INPUT`` option must be given. A specific Generated files are modified on subsequent cmake runs only if their content is changed. +Note also that ``file(GENERATE)`` does not create the output file until the +generation phase. The output file will not yet have been written when the +``file(GENERATE)`` command returns, it is written only after processing all +of a project's ``CMakeLists.txt`` files. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ :: |