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authorStephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>2014-02-05 13:51:08 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-02-06 21:15:53 (GMT)
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Help: Document relation of properties to the rest of the buildsystem.
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@@ -5,9 +5,11 @@ List of interface options to pass to the compiler.
Targets may populate this property to publish the compile options
required to compile against the headers for the target. Consuming
-targets can add entries to their own COMPILE_OPTIONS property such as
-$<TARGET_PROPERTY:foo,INTERFACE_COMPILE_OPTIONS> to use the compile
-options specified in the interface of 'foo'.
+targets can add entries to their own :prop_tgt:`COMPILE_OPTIONS` property
+such as ``$<TARGET_PROPERTY:foo,INTERFACE_COMPILE_OPTIONS>`` to use the
+compile options specified in the interface of ``foo``.
-This property also supports generator expressions. See the
-:manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` manual for available expressions.
+Contents of ``INTERFACE_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.