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| author | Craig Scott <craig.scott@crascit.com> | 2017-04-08 21:21:40 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2017-04-10 13:58:22 (GMT) |
| commit | d039f7414f9acc28ad1e51e775e888688f51a706 (patch) | |
| tree | e0c7dd7f3d1c3b21e30ffba9d6943bae0ed9650d /Help/command/file.rst | |
| parent | 18eeed41948b265168497ea3360e7b0d56e8e8a9 (diff) | |
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Help: Clarify file(GENERATE) only writes output file at generation phase
Closes: #16556
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diff --git a/Help/command/file.rst b/Help/command/file.rst index 3e669c2..b2e4eea 100644 --- a/Help/command/file.rst +++ b/Help/command/file.rst @@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ Exactly one ``CONTENT`` or ``INPUT`` option must be given. A specific Generated files are modified on subsequent cmake runs only if their content is changed. +Note also that ``file(GENERATE)`` does not create the output file until the +generation phase. The output file will not yet have been written when the +``file(GENERATE)`` command returns, it is written only after processing all +of a project's ``CMakeLists.txt`` files. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ :: |