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Diffstat (limited to 'Source/cmUtilitySourceCommand.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | Source/cmUtilitySourceCommand.h | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Source/cmUtilitySourceCommand.h b/Source/cmUtilitySourceCommand.h index e1866ef..6364d67 100644 --- a/Source/cmUtilitySourceCommand.h +++ b/Source/cmUtilitySourceCommand.h @@ -70,7 +70,13 @@ public: "this command specifies its location and name. The cache entry will " "not be set unless the path_to_source and all listed files exist. It " "is assumed that the source tree of the utility will have been built " - "before it is needed."; + "before it is needed.\n" + "When cross compiling CMake will print a warning if a UTILITY_SOURCE() " + "command is executed, because in many cases it is used to build an " + "executable which is executed later on. This doesn't work when " + "cross compiling, since the executable can run only on their target " + "platform. So in this case the cache entry has to be adjusted manually " + "so it points to an executable which is runnable on the build host."; } /** This command is kept for compatibility with older CMake versions. */ |