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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2019-10-11 12:05:59 (GMT)
committerBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2019-10-11 12:05:59 (GMT)
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Help: Document CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD/CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS limitation
These two options currently do not work well together. Mention this limitation in the documentation. Issue: #19826
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-rw-r--r--Help/prop_tgt/UNITY_BUILD.rst6
-rw-r--r--Help/variable/CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.rst4
-rw-r--r--Help/variable/CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD.rst4
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diff --git a/Help/prop_tgt/UNITY_BUILD.rst b/Help/prop_tgt/UNITY_BUILD.rst
index 1e68dcd..2faad92 100644
--- a/Help/prop_tgt/UNITY_BUILD.rst
+++ b/Help/prop_tgt/UNITY_BUILD.rst
@@ -26,6 +26,12 @@ The batching of source files is done by adding new sources files
which will ``#include`` the source files, and exclude them from
building by setting :prop_sf:`HEADER_FILE_ONLY` to ``ON``.
+.. note::
+
+ Marking the original sources with :prop_sf:`HEADER_FILE_ONLY`
+ is considered an implementation detail that may change in the
+ future because it does not work well in combination with
+ the :variable:`CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS` variable.
ODR (One definition rule) errors
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.rst
index 8776279..4548abc 100644
--- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.rst
+++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS.rst
@@ -28,3 +28,7 @@ form. The format of the JSON file looks like:
.. note::
This option is implemented only by :ref:`Makefile Generators`
and the :generator:`Ninja`. It is ignored on other generators.
+
+ This option currently does not work well in combination with
+ the :prop_tgt:`UNITY_BUILD` target property or the
+ :variable:`CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD` variable.
diff --git a/Help/variable/CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD.rst b/Help/variable/CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD.rst
index b653881..bbcfd68 100644
--- a/Help/variable/CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD.rst
+++ b/Help/variable/CMAKE_UNITY_BUILD.rst
@@ -6,3 +6,7 @@ as they are created. Set to ``ON`` to batch compilation of multiple
sources within each target. This feature is known as "Unity build",
or "Jumbo build". By default this variable is not set and so does
not enable unity builds on targets.
+
+.. note::
+ This option currently does not work well in combination with
+ the :variable:`CMAKE_EXPORT_COMPILE_COMMANDS` variable.