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"expressions and store it into the variable. Globbing expressions "
"are similar to regular expressions, but much simpler. If RELATIVE "
"flag is specified for an expression, the results will be returned "
- "as a relative path to the given path.\n"
+ "as a relative path to the given path. "
+ "(We do not recommend using GLOB to collect a list of source files "
+ "from your source tree. If no CMakeLists.txt file changes when a "
+ "source is added or removed then the generated build system cannot "
+ "know when to ask CMake to regenerate.)"
+ "\n"
"Examples of globbing expressions include:\n"
" *.cxx - match all files with extension cxx\n"
" *.vt? - match all files with extension vta,...,vtz\n"