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| author | Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> | 2014-11-22 11:49:17 (GMT) |
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| committer | Stephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com> | 2014-11-22 11:51:25 (GMT) |
| commit | 8609a884a2e0a7518180b11b6b6ef9baa6200424 (patch) | |
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| parent | bcface3932edb879bb71b90f65b628c5d9a11190 (diff) | |
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Help: Make remaining build property docs consistent.
These help entries are different enough that they can not use the
generic template.
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diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst index fb28231..a224b68 100644 --- a/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst @@ -1,13 +1,16 @@ INTERFACE_SOURCES ----------------- -List of interface sources to pass to the compiler. +List of interface sources to compile into consuming targets. Targets may populate this property to publish the sources -for consuming targets to compile. Consuming -targets can add entries to their own :prop_tgt:`SOURCES` property -such as ``$<TARGET_PROPERTY:foo,INTERFACE_SOURCES>`` to use the -sources specified in the interface of ``foo``. +for consuming targets to compile. The :command:`target_sources` command +populates this property with values given to the ``PUBLIC`` and +``INTERFACE`` keywords. Projects may also get and set the property directly. + +When target dependencies are specified using :command:`target_link_libraries`, +CMake will read this property from all target dependencies to determine the +sources of the consumer. Contents of ``INTERFACE_SOURCES`` may use "generator expressions" with the syntax ``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` |