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authorStephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>2014-11-22 11:49:17 (GMT)
committerStephen Kelly <steveire@gmail.com>2014-11-22 11:51:25 (GMT)
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Help: Make remaining build property docs consistent.
These help entries are different enough that they can not use the generic template.
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-rw-r--r--Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst13
-rw-r--r--Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.rst10
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst
index fb28231..a224b68 100644
--- a/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst
+++ b/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SOURCES.rst
@@ -1,13 +1,16 @@
INTERFACE_SOURCES
-----------------
-List of interface sources to pass to the compiler.
+List of interface sources to compile into consuming targets.
Targets may populate this property to publish the sources
-for consuming targets to compile. Consuming
-targets can add entries to their own :prop_tgt:`SOURCES` property
-such as ``$<TARGET_PROPERTY:foo,INTERFACE_SOURCES>`` to use the
-sources specified in the interface of ``foo``.
+for consuming targets to compile. The :command:`target_sources` command
+populates this property with values given to the ``PUBLIC`` and
+``INTERFACE`` keywords. Projects may also get and set the property directly.
+
+When target dependencies are specified using :command:`target_link_libraries`,
+CMake will read this property from all target dependencies to determine the
+sources of the consumer.
Contents of ``INTERFACE_SOURCES`` may use "generator expressions"
with the syntax ``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)`
diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.rst
index 9e603ee..b54b6c1 100644
--- a/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.rst
+++ b/Help/prop_tgt/INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES.rst
@@ -5,8 +5,14 @@ List of public system include directories for a library.
Targets may populate this property to publish the include directories
which contain system headers, and therefore should not result in
-compiler warnings. Consuming targets will then mark the same include
-directories as system headers.
+compiler warnings. The :command:`target_include_directories(SYSTEM)`
+command signature populates this property with values given to the
+``PUBLIC`` and ``INTERFACE`` keywords. Projects may also get and set the
+property directly.
+
+When target dependencies are specified using :command:`target_link_libraries`,
+CMake will read this property from all target dependencies to mark the
+same include directories as containing system headers.
Contents of ``INTERFACE_SYSTEM_INCLUDE_DIRECTORIES`` may use "generator
expressions" with the syntax ``$<...>``. See the