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-rw-r--r--Help/command/file.rst3
-rw-r--r--Help/command/if.rst11
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/file.rst b/Help/command/file.rst
index 24e43e9..31de610 100644
--- a/Help/command/file.rst
+++ b/Help/command/file.rst
@@ -922,7 +922,8 @@ system search path like ``$ENV{PATH}``. A search path will be converted
to a cmake-style list separated by ``;`` characters.
The ``TO_NATIVE_PATH`` mode converts a cmake-style ``<path>`` into a native
-path with platform-specific slashes (``\`` on Windows and ``/`` elsewhere).
+path with platform-specific slashes (``\`` on Windows hosts and ``/``
+elsewhere).
Always use double quotes around the ``<path>`` to be sure it is treated
as a single argument to this command.
diff --git a/Help/command/if.rst b/Help/command/if.rst
index f327ca9..fbf3e36 100644
--- a/Help/command/if.rst
+++ b/Help/command/if.rst
@@ -153,7 +153,16 @@ File Operations
only for full paths.
``if(IS_ABSOLUTE path)``
- True if the given path is an absolute path.
+ True if the given path is an absolute path. Note the following special
+ cases:
+
+ * An empty ``path`` evaluates to false.
+ * On Windows hosts, any ``path`` that begins with a drive letter and colon
+ (e.g. ``C:``), a forward slash or a backslash will evaluate to true.
+ This means a path like ``C:no\base\dir`` will evaluate to true, even
+ though the non-drive part of the path is relative.
+ * On non-Windows hosts, any ``path`` that begins with a tilde (``~``)
+ evaluates to true.
Comparisons
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