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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2014-09-04 13:48:30 (GMT) |
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| committer | CMake Topic Stage <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2014-09-04 13:48:30 (GMT) |
| commit | 0ad4f28fc0b702beff8d197e52d10814178b79b5 (patch) | |
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| parent | f7c44eac4c195a3ae416453be551910fdb311ac6 (diff) | |
| parent | abbe91c58ccf49dd60027ec5663154e54365f0fe (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'doc-try_compile-debug-advice'
abbe91c5 Help: Clarify --debug-trycompile usage with try_compile
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/try_compile.rst | 7 |
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diff --git a/Help/command/try_compile.rst b/Help/command/try_compile.rst index 8ed3cf4..224c67b 100644 --- a/Help/command/try_compile.rst +++ b/Help/command/try_compile.rst @@ -36,9 +36,10 @@ cleaned automatically. For debugging, --debug-trycompile can be passed to cmake to avoid this clean. However, multiple sequential try_compile operations reuse this single output directory. If you use --debug-trycompile, you can only debug one try_compile call at a time. -The recommended procedure is to configure with cmake all the way -through once, then delete the cache entry associated with the -try_compile call of interest, and then re-run cmake again with +The recommended procedure is to protect all try_compile calls in your +project by ``if(NOT DEFINED RESULT_VAR)`` logic, configure with cmake +all the way through once, then delete the cache entry associated with +the try_compile call of interest, and then re-run cmake again with --debug-trycompile. Some extra flags that can be included are, INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES, |