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26cc29a Warn in find(GLOB) docs about bad use case (#11617)
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Brad King 2010-12-21 13:59:13 -05:00 committed by CMake Topic Stage
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"expressions and store it into the variable. Globbing expressions " "expressions and store it into the variable. Globbing expressions "
"are similar to regular expressions, but much simpler. If RELATIVE " "are similar to regular expressions, but much simpler. If RELATIVE "
"flag is specified for an expression, the results will be returned " "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" "Examples of globbing expressions include:\n"
" *.cxx - match all files with extension cxx\n" " *.cxx - match all files with extension cxx\n"
" *.vt? - match all files with extension vta,...,vtz\n" " *.vt? - match all files with extension vta,...,vtz\n"