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authorSteve Mokris <smokris@softpixel.com>2019-07-05 18:13:12 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2019-07-10 13:29:29 (GMT)
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Help: Mention file(GLOB)'s case-sensitivity
Based on the KWSYS_GLOB_CASE_INDEPENDENT flag in `Source/kwsys/Glob.cxx`.
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@@ -503,6 +503,11 @@ regular expressions, but much simpler. If ``RELATIVE`` flag is
specified, the results will be returned as relative paths to the given
path. The results will be ordered lexicographically.
+On Windows and macOS, globbing is case-insensitive even if the underlying
+filesystem is case-sensitive (both filenames and globbing expressions are
+converted to lowercase before matching). On other platforms, globbing is
+case-sensitive.
+
If the ``CONFIGURE_DEPENDS`` flag is specified, CMake will add logic
to the main build system check target to rerun the flagged ``GLOB`` commands
at build time. If any of the outputs change, CMake will regenerate the build