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authorBen Boeckel <ben.boeckel@kitware.com>2019-11-27 23:44:58 (GMT)
committerBen Boeckel <ben.boeckel@kitware.com>2019-12-05 19:25:36 (GMT)
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launcher: support setting a compiler launcher through the environment
This makes it much easier to use a launcher for all CMake projects in an environment rather than having to remember to pass the setting to every CMake build.
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diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_LAUNCHER.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_LAUNCHER.rst
index e6c8bb5..e5dda60 100644
--- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_LAUNCHER.rst
+++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_LANG_COMPILER_LAUNCHER.rst
@@ -5,3 +5,6 @@ Default value for :prop_tgt:`<LANG>_COMPILER_LAUNCHER` target property.
This variable is used to initialize the property on each target as it is
created. This is done only when ``<LANG>`` is ``C``, ``CXX``, ``Fortran``,
or ``CUDA``.
+
+This variable is initialized to the :envvar:`CMAKE_<LANG>_COMPILER_LAUNCHER`
+environment variable if it is set.