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authorGregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>2017-11-04 14:27:48 (GMT)
committerGregor Jasny <gjasny@googlemail.com>2017-12-22 20:56:53 (GMT)
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Darwin: Emit deployment target that matches the SDK
Closes: #17431
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-rw-r--r--Help/variable/CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET.rst10
-rw-r--r--Help/variable/CMAKE_OSX_VARIABLE.txt5
2 files changed, 10 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET.rst
index 4fb2caa..9df5edd 100644
--- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET.rst
+++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,12 @@
CMAKE_OSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET
---------------------------
-Specify the minimum version of OS X on which the target binaries are
-to be deployed. CMake uses this value for the ``-mmacosx-version-min``
-flag and to help choose the default SDK
-(see :variable:`CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT`).
+Specify the minimum version of the target platform (e.g. macOS or iOS)
+on which the target binaries are to be deployed. CMake uses this
+variable value for the ``-mmacosx-version-min`` flag or their respective
+target platform equivalents. For older Xcode versions that shipped
+multiple macOS SDKs this variable also helps to choose the SDK in case
+:variable:`CMAKE_OSX_SYSROOT` is unset.
If not set explicitly the value is initialized by the
``MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET`` environment variable, if set,
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_OSX_VARIABLE.txt b/Help/variable/CMAKE_OSX_VARIABLE.txt
index 385f871..5b84726 100644
--- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_OSX_VARIABLE.txt
+++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_OSX_VARIABLE.txt
@@ -3,4 +3,7 @@ The value of this variable should be set prior to the first
because it may influence configuration of the toolchain and flags.
It is intended to be set locally by the user creating a build tree.
-This variable is ignored on platforms other than OS X.
+Despite the ``OSX`` part in the variable name(s) they apply also to
+other SDKs than macOS like iOS, tvOS, or watchOS.
+
+This variable is ignored on platforms other than Apple.