From a33e059e41abe4f018411046cf83865494402ede Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexander Neundorf Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 11:58:21 -0400 Subject: STYLE: document the behaviour of UTILITY_SOURCE in cross compiling mode Alex --- Source/cmUtilitySourceCommand.h | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) 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. */ -- cgit v0.12