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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-06-29 17:55:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2021-06-30 14:55:40 (GMT) |
| commit | 6986a382a912f4b982f4b20a6e04ff1d773ef1eb (patch) | |
| tree | 3d55b626979132d878aa4f769e5f95d6064abf65 | |
| parent | e96169a3eca6f3cda5aa3e9dac2c7e0b6041b44d (diff) | |
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Help: Document when CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE and CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES are set
Fixes: #19247
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.rst | 5 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES.rst | 4 |
2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.rst index dd892fa..b29678a 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.rst @@ -24,5 +24,10 @@ variable will be the same as it is specified when invoking CMake. For instance, if ``-DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=ReLeAsE`` is specified, then the value of ``CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE`` will be ``ReLeAsE``. +This variable is initialized by the first :command:`project` or +:command:`enable_language` command called in a project when a new build +tree is first created. A toolchain-specific default is chosen when a +language is enabled. + See :variable:`CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES` for specifying the configuration with multi-config generators. diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES.rst index 8fcc798..15fea4b 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES.rst @@ -8,5 +8,9 @@ such as ``Debug``, ``Release``, ``RelWithDebInfo`` etc. This has reasonable defaults on most platforms, but can be extended to provide other build types. +This variable is initialized by the first :command:`project` or +:command:`enable_language` command called in a project when a new build +tree is first created. The default value is generator-specific. + See :variable:`CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE` for specifying the configuration with single-config generators. |