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diff --git a/Help/command/file.rst b/Help/command/file.rst index 7afb715..97466ff 100644 --- a/Help/command/file.rst +++ b/Help/command/file.rst @@ -306,8 +306,8 @@ from the input content to produce the output content. The options are: Exactly one ``CONTENT`` or ``INPUT`` option must be given. A specific ``OUTPUT`` file may be named by at most one invocation of ``file(GENERATE)``. -Generated files are modified on subsequent cmake runs only if their content -is changed. +Generated files are modified and their timestamp updated 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 |