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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2014-09-08 18:17:36 (GMT)
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Help: Suggest in add_custom_command how to create a script (#15112)
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@@ -47,6 +47,9 @@ The options are:
Specify the command-line(s) to execute at build time.
If more than one ``COMMAND`` is specified they will be executed in order,
but *not* necessarily composed into a stateful shell or batch script.
+ (To run a full script, use the :command:`configure_file` command or the
+ :command:`file(GENERATE)` command to create it, and then specify
+ a ``COMMAND`` to launch it.)
The optional ``ARGS`` argument is for backward compatibility and
will be ignored.