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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2019-04-04 16:51:34 (GMT)
committerKitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>2019-04-04 16:51:41 (GMT)
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Merge topic 'if-EXISTS-doc'
78ac8cb04a Help: clarify if(EXISTS) operation for symlinks Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> Merge-request: !3189
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@@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ Possible conditions are:
``if(EXISTS path-to-file-or-directory)``
True if the named file or directory exists. Behavior is well-defined
- only for full paths.
+ only for full paths. Resolves symbolic links, i.e. if the named file or
+ directory is a symbolic link, returns true if the target of the
+ symbolic link exists.
``if(file1 IS_NEWER_THAN file2)``
True if ``file1`` is newer than ``file2`` or if one of the two files doesn't