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-rw-r--r--Source/cmLinkDirectoriesCommand.h7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Source/cmLinkDirectoriesCommand.h b/Source/cmLinkDirectoriesCommand.h
index 7f37ebf..b575931 100644
--- a/Source/cmLinkDirectoriesCommand.h
+++ b/Source/cmLinkDirectoriesCommand.h
@@ -66,7 +66,12 @@ public:
return
" link_directories(directory1 directory2 ...)\n"
"Specify the paths in which the linker should search for libraries. "
- "The command will apply only to targets created after it is called.";
+ "The command will apply only to targets created after it is called. "
+ "For historical reasons, relative paths given to this command are "
+ "passed to the linker unchanged "
+ "(unlike many CMake commands which interpret them relative to the "
+ "current source directory)."
+ ;
}
cmTypeMacro(cmLinkDirectoriesCommand, cmCommand);