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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2015-05-20 12:30:36 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2015-05-20 12:30:36 (GMT)
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Help: Spell '-D' option consistently across documentation (#15575)
Always show the option with its argument separate in summary text. State in the main documentation that the option and its argument can be given together too.
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diff --git a/Help/manual/OPTIONS_BUILD.txt b/Help/manual/OPTIONS_BUILD.txt
index e4c5873..4207db4 100644
--- a/Help/manual/OPTIONS_BUILD.txt
+++ b/Help/manual/OPTIONS_BUILD.txt
@@ -27,6 +27,9 @@
command in the project sets the type to ``PATH`` or ``FILEPATH``
then the ``<value>`` will be converted to an absolute path.
+ This option may also be given as a single argument:
+ ``-D<var>:<type>=<value>`` or ``-D<var>=<value>``.
+
``-U <globbing_expr>``
Remove matching entries from CMake cache.
diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
index b2f7e9d..4bd5a5e 100644
--- a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
+++ b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Synopsis
.. parsed-literal::
cmake [<options>] (<path-to-source> | <path-to-existing-build>)
- cmake [(-D<var>=<value>)...] -P <cmake-script-file>
+ cmake [(-D <var>=<value>)...] -P <cmake-script-file>
cmake --build <dir> [<options>] [-- <build-tool-options>...]
cmake -E <command> [<options>...]
cmake --find-package <options>...