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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-10-29 13:18:56 (GMT)
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Help: Clarify add_compile_options documentation (#15225)
Explain that it affects only targets added after the call. Fix the link to the COMPILE_OPTIONS directory propert documentation. Update the latter to explain that it is used to initialize the corresponding target property when a target is created.
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diff --git a/Help/prop_dir/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst b/Help/prop_dir/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst
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--- a/Help/prop_dir/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst
+++ b/Help/prop_dir/COMPILE_OPTIONS.rst
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ List of options to pass to the compiler.
This property specifies the list of options given so far to the
:command:`add_compile_options` command.
-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.
+This property is used to initialize the :prop_tgt:`COMPILE_OPTIONS` target
+property when a target is created, 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