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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-07-19 18:19:42 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2018-07-20 13:43:08 (GMT) |
| commit | 492ade276b9a54ad61ba5eed4eea77897fdb74c1 (patch) | |
| tree | d4eacdf430e9e29aa89244e2ab1dd9c01ba5ab78 /Help/release/3.12.rst | |
| parent | f84c15ef2fa30dd074fcccafccec6b9b69266619 (diff) | |
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Help: Add explicit <PackageName>_ROOT variable documentation
Add documentation for both the CMake variable and environment variable
of this name pattern. Update references to these names to link to their
documents. Clarify the pattern used to construct their names.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Help/release/3.12.rst b/Help/release/3.12.rst index f6fdb5a..f00be3e 100644 --- a/Help/release/3.12.rst +++ b/Help/release/3.12.rst @@ -46,8 +46,9 @@ Commands were added to expose ``TOUCH`` functionality without having to use CMake's command-line tool mode with :command:`execute_process`. -* The :command:`find_package` command now searches a prefix specified by - a ``PackageName_ROOT`` CMake or environment variable. Package roots are +* The :command:`find_package` command now searches prefixes specified by + the :variable:`<PackageName>_ROOT` CMake variable and the + :envvar:`<PackageName>_ROOT` environment variable. Package roots are maintained as a stack so nested calls to all ``find_*`` commands inside find modules also search the roots as prefixes. See policy :policy:`CMP0074`. |