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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2018-01-17 15:35:26 (GMT)
committerKitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>2018-01-17 15:35:31 (GMT)
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Merge topic 'fix-documentation'
60216e15 Help: Improved MAIN_DEPENDENCY documentation of add_custom_command() Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> Merge-request: !1665
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@@ -146,8 +146,10 @@ The options are:
Specify the primary input source file to the command. This is
treated just like any value given to the ``DEPENDS`` option
but also suggests to Visual Studio generators where to hang
- the custom command. At most one custom command may specify a
- given source file as its main dependency.
+ the custom command. Each source file may have at most one command
+ specifying it as its main dependency. A compile command (i.e. for a
+ library or an executable) counts as an implicit main dependency which
+ gets silently overwritten by a custom command specification.
``OUTPUT``
Specify the output files the command is expected to produce.