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| author | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2012-12-11 19:00:23 (GMT) |
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| committer | Brad King <brad.king@kitware.com> | 2012-12-11 19:00:23 (GMT) |
| commit | 017d90c50099540b2bc71b63d646271aa0968d36 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b99d5e9d3d76d37656015bbade1f8c111e41518 /Source/cmDocumentVariables.cxx | |
| parent | 2be87f8ff832fc29daa3d4eca85de88130daa400 (diff) | |
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Documentation: Clarify handling of implicit link directories
Extend documentation for CMAKE_<LANG>_IMPLICIT_LINK_DIRECTORIES to
explain how it is used by CMake and how it can be influenced by
environment variables.
Inspired-by: Alex Neundorf <neundorf@kde.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Source/cmDocumentVariables.cxx')
| -rw-r--r-- | Source/cmDocumentVariables.cxx | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Source/cmDocumentVariables.cxx b/Source/cmDocumentVariables.cxx index 55d70f8..32c543d 100644 --- a/Source/cmDocumentVariables.cxx +++ b/Source/cmDocumentVariables.cxx @@ -1621,7 +1621,15 @@ void cmDocumentVariables::DefineVariables(cmake* cm) "These paths are implicit linker search directories for the compiler's " "language. " "CMake automatically detects these directories for each language and " - "reports the results in this variable.", false, + "reports the results in this variable." + "\n" + "When a library in one of these directories is given by full path to " + "target_link_libraries() CMake will generate the -l<name> form on " + "link lines to ensure the linker searches its implicit directories " + "for the library. " + "Note that some toolchains read implicit directories from an " + "environment variable such as LIBRARY_PATH so keep its value " + "consistent when operating in a given build tree.",false, "Variables for Languages"); cm->DefineProperty |