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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2018-03-21 13:08:48 (GMT)
committerKitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>2018-03-21 13:08:58 (GMT)
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Merge topic 'pr.target_compile_definitions'
3af1daa186 Help: Document target_compile_definitions handling of -D Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> Merge-request: !1873
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@@ -27,3 +27,13 @@ Arguments to ``target_compile_definitions`` may use "generator expressions"
with the syntax ``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)`
manual for available expressions. See the :manual:`cmake-buildsystem(7)`
manual for more on defining buildsystem properties.
+
+Any leading ``-D`` on an item will be removed. Empty items are ignored.
+For example, the following are all equivalent:
+
+.. code-block:: cmake
+
+ target_compile_definitions(foo PUBLIC FOO)
+ target_compile_definitions(foo PUBLIC -DFOO) # -D removed
+ target_compile_definitions(foo PUBLIC "" FOO) # "" ignored
+ target_compile_definitions(foo PUBLIC -D FOO) # -D becomes "", then ignored