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diff --git a/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst b/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst index 6a8dd62..c3f7cfb 100644 --- a/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst +++ b/Help/command/cmake_policy.rst @@ -30,7 +30,10 @@ encourage projects to set policies based on CMake versions:: ``major.minor[.patch[.tweak]]``, and the ``...`` is literal. The ``<min>`` version must be at least ``2.4`` and at most the running version of CMake. The ``<max>`` version, if specified, must be at least the ``<min>`` version -but may exceed the running version of CMake. +but may exceed the running version of CMake. If the running version of +CMake is older than 3.12, the extra ``...`` dots will be seen as version +component separators, resulting in the ``...<max>`` part being ignored and +preserving the pre-3.12 behavior of basing policies on ``<min>``. This specifies that the current CMake code is written for the given range of CMake versions. All policies known to the running version of CMake |