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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2024-03-19 14:09:54 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2024-03-19 14:10:16 (GMT) |
| commit | aa643b66a80e7d51bb5decd25caacc6a356efe1a (patch) | |
| tree | 3ba238b7b8aa895c99b5e47f98ca0b9272333082 /Help/policy | |
| parent | 4cb8f1de47d2edd36947c55f5fe9b0816cf9acfb (diff) | |
| parent | eceb368ccc1f2f8f33b852bf0099f680416696ef (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'doc-release-3.29-typos'
eceb368ccc Help: Fix typos in 3.29 docs
31fb693d06 Help: Fix typos and grammar in pre-3.29 docs
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !9353
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/policy/CMP0156.rst | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/Help/policy/CMP0156.rst b/Help/policy/CMP0156.rst index 6fa0f04..d2ce291 100644 --- a/Help/policy/CMP0156.rst +++ b/Help/policy/CMP0156.rst @@ -17,20 +17,20 @@ Handling mutually dependent archives may be awkward when using a traditional linker. Archive files may have to be specified multiple times. Some linkers (for instance Apple or Windows linkers, as well as ``LLVM LLD``) -records all symbols found in objects and archives as it iterates over command +record all symbols found in objects and archives as they iterate over command line arguments. When one of these linkers encounters an undefined symbol that can be resolved by an object file contained in a previously processed archive file, it immediately extracts and links it into the output object. CMake 3.28 and below may generate link lines that repeat static libraries as -a traditional linker would need, even when using a linker does not need it. +a traditional linker would need, even when using a linker that does not need it. They may also de-duplicate shared libraries by keeping their last occurrence, which on Windows platforms can change DLL load order. CMake 3.29 and above prefer to apply different strategies based on linker capabilities. So, when targeting Apple and Windows platforms, all libraries are de-duplicated. Moreover, on Windows platforms, libraries -are de-duplicated by keeping their fist occurrence, thus respecting the +are de-duplicated by keeping their first occurrence, thus respecting the project-specified order. This policy provides compatibility with projects that have not been updated to expect the latter behavior. |