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authorStephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>2014-02-05 13:51:08 (GMT)
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Help: Document relation of properties to the rest of the buildsystem.
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List of options to pass to the compiler.
-This property specifies the list of directories given so far for this
-property. This property exists on directories and targets.
+This property specifies the list of options given so far to the
+:command:`add_compile_options` command.
-The target property values are used by the generators to set the
-options for the compiler.
+This property is used to populate the :prop_tgt:`COMPILE_OPTIONS` target
+property, which is used by the generators to set the options for the
+compiler.
-Contents of COMPILE_OPTIONS may use "generator expressions" with the syntax
-``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` manual for
-available expressions.
+Contents of ``COMPILE_OPTIONS`` may use "generator expressions" with the
+syntax ``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` manual
+for available expressions. See the :manual:`cmake-buildsystem(7)` manual
+for more on defining buildsystem properties.