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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2015-04-22 15:16:36 (GMT) |
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| committer | CMake Topic Stage <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2015-04-22 15:16:36 (GMT) |
| commit | 981bdc09c6abe3160f3d365b86848749326b546c (patch) | |
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| parent | df302bcc550e344f4cbe07f7941e1315dfd86ca5 (diff) | |
| parent | 941e3bd2b63769a0b91224c0d038e13b6cae6255 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'doc-find_library-file-name'
941e3bd2 Help: Document in find_library how to search for static libraries
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diff --git a/Help/command/find_library.rst b/Help/command/find_library.rst index 09df688..e3dcd2b 100644 --- a/Help/command/find_library.rst +++ b/Help/command/find_library.rst @@ -34,6 +34,12 @@ default will consider one name at a time and search every directory for it. The NAMES_PER_DIR option tells this command to consider one directory at a time and search for all names in it. +Each library name given to the ``NAMES`` option is first considered +as a library file name and then considered with platform-specific +prefixes (e.g. ``lib``) and suffixes (e.g. ``.so``). Therefore one +may specify library file names such as ``libfoo.a`` directly. +This can be used to locate static libraries on UNIX-like systems. + If the library found is a framework, then VAR will be set to the full path to the framework <fullPath>/A.framework. When a full path to a framework is used as a library, CMake will use a -framework A, and a |