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authorBartosz Kosiorek <bartosz.kosiorek@tomtom.com>2019-04-01 13:14:27 (GMT)
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Allow duplicate custom targets to be created.
Normally CMake requires that all targets built in a project have
-globally unique logical names (see policy CMP0002). This is necessary
-to generate meaningful project file names in Xcode and VS IDE
+globally unique logical names (see policy :policy:`CMP0002`).
+This is necessary to generate meaningful project file names in
+:generator:`Xcode` and :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` IDE
generators. It also allows the target names to be referenced
unambiguously.
-Makefile generators are capable of supporting duplicate custom target
-names. For projects that care only about Makefile generators and do
-not wish to support Xcode or VS IDE generators, one may set this
-property to true to allow duplicate custom targets. The property
-allows multiple add_custom_target command calls in different
+Makefile generators are capable of supporting duplicate :command:`add_custom_target`
+names. For projects that care only about :ref:`Makefile Generators` and do
+not wish to support :generator:`Xcode` or :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` IDE
+generators, one may set this property to ``True``
+to allow duplicate custom targets. The property
+allows multiple :command:`add_custom_target` command calls in different
directories to specify the same target name. However, setting this
property will cause non-Makefile generators to produce an error and
refuse to generate the project.