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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2019-03-15 14:45:39 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2019-03-15 14:45:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 3261f2387038e251d25852069f0ffc6fb81ed0a0 (patch) | |
| tree | cad862584e7da75467d5ec0070b3dc5c55980e6f /Help/command | |
| parent | a6d8165dd2abe81dd133d188c8fe81323944c469 (diff) | |
| parent | 9bede5c4cecd71fba7ce6a0687c4a68e1c84a54b (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'export-package-default-off'
9bede5c4ce export: Disable PACKAGE mode user package registry by default
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Acked-by: Lukas Mosimann <lumosimann@gmail.com>
Merge-request: !3041
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/command')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/export.rst | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/export.rst b/Help/command/export.rst index b255ee8..ffd60e1 100644 --- a/Help/command/export.rst +++ b/Help/command/export.rst @@ -62,8 +62,13 @@ registry that this command creates works only in conjunction with a package configuration file (``<PackageName>Config.cmake``) that works with the build tree. In some cases, for example for packaging and for system wide installations, it is not desirable to write the user package -registry. If the :variable:`CMAKE_EXPORT_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY` variable -is enabled, the ``export(PACKAGE)`` command will do nothing. +registry. + +By default the ``export(PACKAGE)`` command does nothing (see policy +:policy:`CMP0090`) because populating the user package registry has effects +outside the source and build trees. Set the +:variable:`CMAKE_EXPORT_PACKAGE_REGISTRY` variable to add build directories to +the CMake user package registry. .. code-block:: cmake |