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authorJoachim Wuttke (h) <j.wuttke@fz-juelich.de>2018-11-04 17:26:13 (GMT)
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@@ -25,6 +25,11 @@ conditional include directories, and more. The conditions may be based on
the build configuration, target properties, platform information or any other
queryable information.
+Generator expressions have the form ``$<...>``. To avoid confusion, this page
+deviates from most of the CMake documentation in that it omits angular brackets
+``<...>`` around placeholders like ``condition``, ``true_value``, ``string``,
+and so on.
+
.. _`Conditional Generator Expressions`:
Conditional Generator Expressions