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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2016-03-09 13:50:04 (GMT) |
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| committer | CMake Topic Stage <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2016-03-09 13:50:04 (GMT) |
| commit | 345d5926ee01d716f11c9bf8380fec180088d5a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 3abbb9e3d3808db5e21fd5cbb6547a55cbf57959 /Help/manual | |
| parent | d1856e2e333001d0f106a3af86dfe000fd61b2b2 (diff) | |
| parent | d929c35f08957dc57bbdd802964cb3fb0f4282e1 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'deprecate-CMakeForceCompiler'
d929c35f CMakeForceCompiler: Deprecate this module and its macros
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diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-toolchains.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-toolchains.7.rst index 7b294a8..390220c 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-toolchains.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-toolchains.7.rst @@ -138,9 +138,10 @@ a path on the host to install to. The :variable:`CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX` is always the runtime installation location, even when cross-compiling. The :variable:`CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER` variables may be set to full paths, or to -names of compilers to search for in standard locations. In cases where CMake does -not have enough information to extract information from the compiler, the -:module:`CMakeForceCompiler` module can be used to bypass some of the checks. +names of compilers to search for in standard locations. For toolchains that +do not support linking binaries without custom flags or scripts one may set +the :variable:`CMAKE_TRY_COMPILE_TARGET_TYPE` variable to ``STATIC_LIBRARY`` +to tell CMake not to try to link executables during its checks. CMake ``find_*`` commands will look in the sysroot, and the :variable:`CMAKE_FIND_ROOT_PATH` entries by default in all cases, as well as looking in the host system root prefix. |