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| author | Joachim Wuttke (h) <j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de> | 2018-10-27 13:08:43 (GMT) |
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| committer | Joachim Wuttke (h) <j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de> | 2018-11-08 19:27:10 (GMT) |
| commit | 3de551cc22bf80f63ec9f05e3e934f42f79b8965 (patch) | |
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Help: Clarify effect of set(ENV{..} ..) and unset(ENV{..})
Explain that the commands affect only the current CMake process,
not the process from which CMake was called,
nor the system environment at large,
nor the environment of subsequent build or test processes.
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diff --git a/Help/command/set.rst b/Help/command/set.rst index e37e693..dd5ea13 100644 --- a/Help/command/set.rst +++ b/Help/command/set.rst @@ -88,4 +88,10 @@ Set Environment Variable set(ENV{<variable>} <value>...) -Sets the current process environment ``<variable>`` to the given value. +Sets an :manual:`Environment Variable <cmake-env-variables(7)>` +to the given value. +Subsequent calls of ``$ENV{<variable>}`` will return this new value. + +This command affects only the current CMake process, not the process +from which CMake was called, nor the system environment at large, +nor the environment of subsequent build or test processes. |