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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2024-01-11 18:43:55 (GMT)
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Help: Normalize and consolidate standard policy advice paragraph
Every policy's documentation has a paragraph on what version of CMake introduced it, how to set the policy, and whether CMake warns if the policy is not set. The wording of this paragraph has diverged across policies over time. Factor the paragraph out into a standard advice document included by every policy.
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@@ -24,14 +24,16 @@ regardless of the ``CMP0126`` policy setting. The :command:`option` command
will *not* set the cache variable if a non-cache variable of the same name
already exists and :policy:`CMP0077` is set to ``NEW``.
-Policy ``CMP0126`` was introduced in CMake version 3.21. Use the
-:command:`cmake_policy` command to set it to ``OLD`` or ``NEW`` explicitly
-within a project. Use the :variable:`CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0126
-<CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP\<NNNN\>>` variable to set the policy for
-a third-party project in a subdirectory without modifying it.
-Unlike many policies, CMake version |release| does *not* warn when the policy
-is not set and simply uses ``OLD`` behavior. See documentation of the
+.. |INTRODUCED_IN_CMAKE_VERSION| replace:: 3.21
+.. |WARNS_OR_DOES_NOT_WARN| replace:: does *not* warn by default
+.. include:: STANDARD_ADVICE.txt
+
+See documentation of the
:variable:`CMAKE_POLICY_WARNING_CMP0126 <CMAKE_POLICY_WARNING_CMP<NNNN>>`
variable to control the warning.
+The :variable:`CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP0126 <CMAKE_POLICY_DEFAULT_CMP\<NNNN\>>`
+variable may be used to set the policy for a third-party project in a
+subdirectory without modifying it.
+
.. include:: DEPRECATED.txt