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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/manual/cmake-policies.7.rst | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/policy/CMP0038.rst | 16 |
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diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-policies.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-policies.7.rst index addd2a7..f77a21c 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-policies.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-policies.7.rst @@ -71,3 +71,4 @@ All Policies /policy/CMP0035 /policy/CMP0036 /policy/CMP0037 + /policy/CMP0038 diff --git a/Help/policy/CMP0038.rst b/Help/policy/CMP0038.rst new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c448ed6 --- /dev/null +++ b/Help/policy/CMP0038.rst @@ -0,0 +1,16 @@ +CMP0038 +------- + +Targets may not link directly to themselves + +CMake 2.8.12 and lower allowed a build target to link to itself directly with +a :command:`target_link_libraries` call. This is an indicator of a bug in +user code. + +The OLD behavior for this policy is to ignore targets which list themselves +in their own link implementation. The NEW behavior for this policy is to +report an error if a target attempts to link to itself. + +This policy was introduced in CMake version 3.0.0. CMake version +|release| warns when the policy is not set and uses OLD behavior. Use +the cmake_policy command to set it to OLD or NEW explicitly. |