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diff --git a/Help/command/file.rst b/Help/command/file.rst index 3e669c2..b2e4eea 100644 --- a/Help/command/file.rst +++ b/Help/command/file.rst @@ -304,6 +304,11 @@ Exactly one ``CONTENT`` or ``INPUT`` option must be given. A specific Generated files are modified on subsequent cmake runs only if their content is changed. +Note also that ``file(GENERATE)`` does not create the output file until the +generation phase. The output file will not yet have been written when the +``file(GENERATE)`` command returns, it is written only after processing all +of a project's ``CMakeLists.txt`` files. + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ :: |