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authorJon Chronopoulos <patches@crondog.com>2018-11-29 10:11:07 (GMT)
committerCraig Scott <craig.scott@crascit.com>2018-12-22 22:03:38 (GMT)
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install: Teach CODE,SCRIPT modes to evaluate generator expressions
This also introduces CMP0087 which will keep the OLD behaviour of not evaluating generator expressions Fixes: #15785
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@@ -547,6 +547,11 @@ example, the code
will print a message during installation.
+``<file>`` or ``<code>`` may use "generator expressions" with the syntax
+``$<...>`` (in the case of ``<file>``, this refers to their use in the file
+name, not the file's contents). See the
+:manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` manual for available expressions.
+
Installing Exports
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^