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diff --git a/Help/policy/CMP0008.rst b/Help/policy/CMP0008.rst index 654a90f..18ede82 100644 --- a/Help/policy/CMP0008.rst +++ b/Help/policy/CMP0008.rst @@ -12,11 +12,12 @@ In CMake 2.4 and below it is possible to write code like where ``somelib`` is supposed to be a valid library file name such as ``libsomelib.a`` or ``somelib.lib``. For Makefile generators this produces an error at build time because the dependency on the full -path cannot be found. For VS IDE and Xcode generators this used to +path cannot be found. For :ref:`Visual Studio Generators` IDE +and :generator:`Xcode` generators this used to work by accident because CMake would always split off the library directory and ask the linker to search for the library by name (``-lsomelib`` or ``somelib.lib``). Despite the failure with Makefiles, some -projects have code like this and build only with VS and/or Xcode. +projects have code like this and build only with Visual Studio and/or Xcode. This version of CMake prefers to pass the full path directly to the native build tool, which will fail in this case because it does not name a valid library file. |