From a4f0321ddc93ab87b661f70422ad0f22f5b8be18 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Robert Maynard <rmaynard@nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:24:09 -0400
Subject: Help: Document $<TARGET_FILE> dependency behavior

Fixes: #23686
---
 Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst b/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst
index 0a54c1d..f53af37 100644
--- a/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst
+++ b/Help/manual/cmake-generator-expressions.7.rst
@@ -1044,6 +1044,10 @@ which is just the string ``tgt``.
 
   Full path to the ``tgt`` binary file.
 
+  Note that ``tgt`` is not added as a dependency of the target this
+  expression is evaluated on, unless the expression is being used in
+  :command:`add_custom_command` or :command:`add_custom_target`.
+
 .. genex:: $<TARGET_FILE_BASE_NAME:tgt>
 
   .. versionadded:: 3.15
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