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authorAndy Cedilnik <andy.cedilnik@kitware.com>2004-04-18 18:41:46 (GMT)
committerAndy Cedilnik <andy.cedilnik@kitware.com>2004-04-18 18:41:46 (GMT)
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ENH: Add check for infinite loops. Make sure that files written using WRITE_FILE and FILE WRITE are not used as input files. Fixes Bug #678 - WRITE_FILE and FILE(WRITE...) lead to infinite loops
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@@ -81,6 +81,10 @@ public:
"if it does not exists.\n"
"APPEND will write a message into a file same as WRITE, except "
"it will append it to the end of the file\n"
+ "NOTE: When using FILE WRITE and FILE APPEND, the produced file "
+ "cannot be used as an input to CMake (CONFIGURE_FILE, source file ...) "
+ "because it will lead to infinite loop. Use CONFIGURE_FILE if you "
+ "want to generate input files to CMake.\n"
"READ will read the content of a file and store it into the "
"variable.\n"
"GLOB will generate a list of all files that match the globbing "