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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2017-04-10 14:01:00 (GMT)
committerKitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>2017-04-10 14:01:11 (GMT)
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Merge topic 'clarifyFileGenerateDocs'
d039f741 Help: Clarify file(GENERATE) only writes output file at generation phase Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> Merge-request: !681
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@@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ Exactly one ``CONTENT`` or ``INPUT`` option must be given. A specific
Generated files are modified on subsequent cmake runs only if their content
is changed.
+Note also that ``file(GENERATE)`` does not create the output file until the
+generation phase. The output file will not yet have been written when the
+``file(GENERATE)`` command returns, it is written only after processing all
+of a project's ``CMakeLists.txt`` files.
+
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