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| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/execute_process.rst | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst | 17 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/policy/CMP0049.rst | 8 |
4 files changed, 28 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/Help/command/execute_process.rst b/Help/command/execute_process.rst index 716f457..fc7d177 100644 --- a/Help/command/execute_process.rst +++ b/Help/command/execute_process.rst @@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Execute one or more child processes. .. code-block:: cmake - execute_process(COMMAND <cmd1> [args1...]] - [COMMAND <cmd2> [args2...] [...]] + execute_process(COMMAND <cmd1> [<arguments>] + [COMMAND <cmd2> [<arguments>]]... [WORKING_DIRECTORY <directory>] [TIMEOUT <seconds>] [RESULT_VARIABLE <variable>] diff --git a/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst b/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst index 229d10c..58f312e 100644 --- a/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst +++ b/Help/command/target_link_libraries.rst @@ -43,6 +43,9 @@ Each ``<item>`` may be: the library instead of using the full path (e.g. ``/usr/lib/libfoo.so`` becomes ``-lfoo``). + The full path to the target's artifact will be quoted/escaped for + the shell automatically. + * **A full path to a library file**: The generated link line will normally preserve the full path to the file. The buildsystem will have a dependency to re-link ``<target>`` if the library file changes. @@ -62,9 +65,15 @@ Each ``<item>`` may be: imported into generated project files. This is not supported by other generators. + The full path to the library file will be quoted/escaped for + the shell automatically. + * **A plain library name**: The generated link line will ask the linker to search for the library (e.g. ``foo`` becomes ``-lfoo`` or ``foo.lib``). + The library name/flag is treated as a command-line string fragment and + will be used with no extra quoting or escaping. + * **A link flag**: Item names starting with ``-``, but not ``-l`` or ``-framework``, are treated as linker flags. Note that such flags will be treated like any other library link item for purposes of transitive @@ -78,6 +87,9 @@ Each ``<item>`` may be: flags explicitly. The flags will then be placed at the toolchain-defined flag position in the link command. + The link flag is treated as a command-line string fragment and + will be used with no extra quoting or escaping. + * **A generator expression**: A ``$<...>`` :manual:`generator expression <cmake-generator-expressions(7)>` may evaluate to any of the above items or to a :ref:`;-list <CMake Language Lists>` of them. diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst index 71649ba..8740d97 100644 --- a/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst +++ b/Help/manual/cmake-language.7.rst @@ -206,9 +206,10 @@ enclosed content, such as `Escape Sequences`_ or `Variable References`_, is performed. A bracket argument is always given to the command invocation as exactly one argument. -For example: +.. No code-block syntax highlighting in the following example + (long string literal not supported by our cmake.py) -.. code-block:: cmake +For example:: message([=[ This is the first line in a bracket argument with bracket length 1. @@ -253,9 +254,10 @@ closing quotes. Both `Escape Sequences`_ and `Variable References`_ are evaluated. A quoted argument is always given to the command invocation as exactly one argument. -For example: +.. No code-block syntax highlighting in the following example + (escape \" not supported by our cmake.py) -:: +For example:: message("This is a quoted argument containing multiple lines. This is always one argument even though it contains a ; character. @@ -264,11 +266,12 @@ For example: It does end in an unescaped double quote. ") +.. No code-block syntax highlighting in the following example + (for conformity with the two above examples) + The final ``\`` on any line ending in an odd number of backslashes is treated as a line continuation and ignored along with the -immediately following newline character. For example: - -.. code-block:: cmake +immediately following newline character. For example:: message("\ This is the first line of a quoted argument. \ diff --git a/Help/policy/CMP0049.rst b/Help/policy/CMP0049.rst index a3ce4b1..291bf57 100644 --- a/Help/policy/CMP0049.rst +++ b/Help/policy/CMP0049.rst @@ -3,14 +3,14 @@ CMP0049 Do not expand variables in target source entries. -CMake 2.8.12 and lower performed and extra layer of variable expansion -when evaluating source file names: - -.. code-block:: cmake +CMake 2.8.12 and lower performed an extra layer of variable expansion +when evaluating source file names:: set(a_source foo.c) add_executable(foo \${a_source}) +.. note: no cmake highlighting since this syntax is deprecated + This was undocumented behavior. The OLD behavior for this policy is to expand such variables when processing |