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| author | Christopher Tetreault <ctetreau@quicinc.com> | 2020-10-22 21:04:39 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2020-10-23 13:19:29 (GMT) |
| commit | fb95d022522c76375506bc974552a04ffd87fd23 (patch) | |
| tree | 859090205c4dc15e6ee4e90cc1646996ee329e24 | |
| parent | 3a82ff6a11d643c4a5959f65ea538a3b60784a16 (diff) | |
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Help: Document case insensitivity for CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE
The value of CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE is case insensitive. Furthermore, the
actual value of the variable will have the same casing as the user
specifies on the command line.
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.rst | 5 |
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diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.rst index 2d35635..405f7d5 100644 --- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.rst +++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE.rst @@ -18,3 +18,8 @@ in a build tree configured to build type ``Debug``, CMake will see to having :variable:`CMAKE_C_FLAGS_DEBUG <CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS_DEBUG>` settings get added to the :variable:`CMAKE_C_FLAGS <CMAKE_<LANG>_FLAGS>` settings. See also :variable:`CMAKE_CONFIGURATION_TYPES`. + +Note that configuration names are case-insensitive. The value of this +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``. |