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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2014-07-29 12:52:15 (GMT) |
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| committer | CMake Topic Stage <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2014-07-29 12:52:15 (GMT) |
| commit | 99a9034759c562ebad9be6e9b1fa111c3cb97daf (patch) | |
| tree | ea07e19c6f24c37775deb7b62ea5efa7d2082dba /Help | |
| parent | e8698861c69c3159aaa353af1e016aa7a387283a (diff) | |
| parent | 8c03f157765256113928edb5e58ef3a5cf82125c (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'doc-tll-flags'
8c03f157 Help: Clarify target_link_libraries treatment of flags (#15034)
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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst | 5 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst b/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst index bced169..39537a7 100644 --- a/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst +++ b/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst @@ -18,7 +18,10 @@ If a library name matches that of another target in the project a dependency will automatically be added in the build system to make sure the library being linked is up-to-date before the target links. Item names starting with ``-``, but not ``-l`` or ``-framework``, are treated as -linker flags. +linker flags. Note that such flags will be treated like any other library +link item for purposes of transitive dependencies, so they are generally +safe to specify only as private link items that will not propagate to +dependents of ``<target>``. A ``debug``, ``optimized``, or ``general`` keyword indicates that the library immediately following it is to be used only for the |