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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2019-06-24 12:26:19 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2019-06-24 12:26:46 (GMT) |
| commit | 2225c8a1dd762b561b2fba07e0215b71390a31b1 (patch) | |
| tree | c07120c59061420de859f4f0e9dda7e2e6d6f974 /Help/prop_tgt | |
| parent | 1ba0cd29677ad077a646f55d705c8f45433cd21d (diff) | |
| parent | 96c6bc25845c31da4031f667b583baf6f121a1c2 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'doc-IMPORTED_LOCATION'
96c6bc2584 Help: Improve documentation of IMPORTED_LOCATION property
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Acked-by: Alex Turbov <i.zaufi@gmail.com>
Merge-request: !3466
Diffstat (limited to 'Help/prop_tgt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/prop_tgt/IMPORTED_LOCATION.rst | 15 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/IMPORTED_LOCATION.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/IMPORTED_LOCATION.rst index d674f29..a9123cd 100644 --- a/Help/prop_tgt/IMPORTED_LOCATION.rst +++ b/Help/prop_tgt/IMPORTED_LOCATION.rst @@ -15,7 +15,14 @@ is the location of the ``.dll`` part of the library. For ``UNKNOWN`` libraries this is the location of the file to be linked. Ignored for non-imported targets. -Projects may skip ``IMPORTED_LOCATION`` if the configuration-specific -property :prop_tgt:`IMPORTED_LOCATION_<CONFIG>` is set. To get the location -of an imported target read one of the :prop_tgt:`LOCATION` or -``LOCATION_<CONFIG>`` properties. +The ``IMPORTED_LOCATION`` target property may be overridden for a +given configuration ``<CONFIG>`` by the configuration-specific +:prop_tgt:`IMPORTED_LOCATION_<CONFIG>` target property. Furthermore, +the :prop_tgt:`MAP_IMPORTED_CONFIG_<CONFIG>` target property may be +used to map between a project's configurations and those of an imported +target. If none of these is set then the name of any other configuration +listed in the :prop_tgt:`IMPORTED_CONFIGURATIONS` target property may be +selected and its :prop_tgt:`IMPORTED_LOCATION_<CONFIG>` value used. + +To get the location of an imported target read one of the :prop_tgt:`LOCATION` +or ``LOCATION_<CONFIG>`` properties. |