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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-07-02 13:24:42 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-07-02 15:48:00 (GMT) |
| commit | ea6ad5e4be446d7c85bc19c7bc4ab5425f93c698 (patch) | |
| tree | 57ce561dc8bc15704a13fbf8db04ea4a431386fd /Help/command/cmake_policy.rst | |
| parent | 51e7d4150756a01d51da38acfd0a469b138e1fde (diff) | |
| parent | 19f338109d8909feba37513285afe4a583811d54 (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'policy_max_docs' into release-3.12
Merge-request: !2180
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diff --git a/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst b/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst index 6a8dd62..c3f7cfb 100644 --- a/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst +++ b/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst @@ -30,7 +30,10 @@ encourage projects to set policies based on CMake versions:: ``major.minor[.patch[.tweak]]``, and the ``...`` is literal. The ``<min>`` version must be at least ``2.4`` and at most the running version of CMake. The ``<max>`` version, if specified, must be at least the ``<min>`` version -but may exceed the running version of CMake. +but may exceed the running version of CMake. If the running version of +CMake is older than 3.12, the extra ``...`` dots will be seen as version +component separators, resulting in the ``...<max>`` part being ignored and +preserving the pre-3.12 behavior of basing policies on ``<min>``. This specifies that the current CMake code is written for the given range of CMake versions. All policies known to the running version of CMake |