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author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2015-06-08 13:04:23 (GMT) |
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committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2015-06-08 13:06:26 (GMT) |
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Help: Reference TARGET_FILE genex in add_custom_command docs (#15605)
When documenting in the COMMAND option how to reference an executable,
we previously only explicitly covered how to do it for argv[0] and left
it to the reader to follow the reference to the generator expressions
manual. Add explicit mention of the TARGET_FILE genex in this
documentation since it will be a commonly used generator expression in
this context.
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diff --git a/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst b/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst index e646c56..ecbf9dd 100644 --- a/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst +++ b/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst @@ -79,6 +79,9 @@ The options are: If ``COMMAND`` specifies an executable target (created by the :command:`add_executable` command) it will automatically be replaced by the location of the executable created at build time. + (Use the ``TARGET_FILE`` + :manual:`generator expression <cmake-generator-expressions(7)>` to + reference an executable later in the command line.) Additionally a target-level dependency will be added so that the executable target will be built before any target using this custom command. However this does NOT add a file-level dependency that |