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authorCraig Scott <craig.scott@crascit.com>2018-06-19 12:23:44 (GMT)
committerKitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>2018-06-19 12:24:08 (GMT)
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Merge topic 'subdir_target_sources'
316815e1f4 target_sources: Interpret relative paths as relative to the calling directory Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> Merge-request: !2128
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diff --git a/Help/command/target_sources.rst b/Help/command/target_sources.rst
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--- a/Help/command/target_sources.rst
+++ b/Help/command/target_sources.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,9 @@ Add sources to a target.
<INTERFACE|PUBLIC|PRIVATE> [items1...]
[<INTERFACE|PUBLIC|PRIVATE> [items2...] ...])
-Specify sources to use when compiling a given target. The
+Specify sources to use when compiling a given target. Relative
+source file paths are interpreted as being relative to the current
+source directory (i.e. :variable:`CMAKE_CURRENT_SOURCE_DIR`). The
named ``<target>`` must have been created by a command such as
:command:`add_executable` or :command:`add_library` and must not be an
:ref:`ALIAS target <Alias Targets>`.
@@ -27,3 +29,6 @@ Arguments to ``target_sources`` may use "generator expressions"
with the syntax ``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)`
manual for available expressions. See the :manual:`cmake-buildsystem(7)`
manual for more on defining buildsystem properties.
+
+See also the :policy:`CMP0076` policy for older behavior related to the
+handling of relative source file paths.