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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-01-09 21:26:30 (GMT)
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@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ versions will begin to warn about the backward compatible behavior. It
is possible to disable the warning by explicitly requesting the OLD, or
backward compatible behavior using the :command:`cmake_policy` command.
It is also possible to request NEW, or non-backward compatible behavior
-for a policy, also avoiding the warning.
+for a policy, also avoiding the warning. Each policy can also be set to
+either NEW or OLD behavior explicitly on the command line with the
+:variable:`CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP<NNNN>` variable.
The :command:`cmake_minimum_required` command does more than report an
error if a too-old version of CMake is used to build a project. It