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authorKen Martin <ken.martin@kitware.com>2009-06-12 17:25:50 (GMT)
committerKen Martin <ken.martin@kitware.com>2009-06-12 17:25:50 (GMT)
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ENH: clean up some help text
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-rw-r--r--Source/cmIfCommand.h8
-rw-r--r--Source/cmPolicies.cxx8
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/Source/cmIfCommand.h b/Source/cmIfCommand.h
index a55c982..243e4fc 100644
--- a/Source/cmIfCommand.h
+++ b/Source/cmIfCommand.h
@@ -194,15 +194,15 @@ public:
"\n"
"The if statement was written fairly early in CMake's history "
- "and it has some convenience features that may be confusing for "
- "new users. The if statement reduces operations until there is "
+ "and it has some convenience features that are worth covering. "
+ "The if statement reduces operations until there is "
"a single remaining value, at that point if the case "
"insensitive value is: ON, 1, YES, TRUE, Y it returns true, if "
"it is OFF, 0, NO, FALSE, N, NOTFOUND, *-NOTFOUND, IGNORE it "
"will return false. \n"
- "This is fairly reasonable. The convenience feature that makes "
- "it more confusing is how CMake handles values that do not "
+ "This is fairly reasonable. The convenience feature that sometimes "
+ "throws new authors is how CMake handles values that do not "
"match the true or false list. Those values are treated as "
"variables and are dereferenced even though they do not have "
"the required ${} syntax. This means that if you write\n"
diff --git a/Source/cmPolicies.cxx b/Source/cmPolicies.cxx
index 5fc0d74..61093fb 100644
--- a/Source/cmPolicies.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmPolicies.cxx
@@ -360,10 +360,10 @@ cmPolicies::cmPolicies()
CMP0012, "CMP0012",
"In CMake versions prior to 2.6.5 the only boolean constants were 0 and 1. "
"Other boolean constants such as true, false, yes, no, "
- "on, off, y, n, notfound, ignore were recognized in some cases but not all. "
- "In later versions of cmake these values are treated as boolean constants "
- "more consistently and should not be used as variable names. "
- "Please do not use them as variable names.",
+ "on, off, y, n, notfound, ignore (all case insensitive) were recognized "
+ "in some cases but not all. In later versions of cmake these values are "
+ "treated as boolean constants more consistently and should not be used "
+ "as variable names. Please do not use them as variable names.",
"The OLD behavior for this policy is to allow variables to have names such as "
"true and to dereference them. "
"The NEW behavior for this policy is to treat strings like true as a boolean constant.",