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ENH: Update LINKER_LANGUAGE and HAS_CXX docs 

This updates the documentation of these properties to account for the
new automatic linker language computation.
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Brad King 2009-07-10 13:53:48 -04:00
parent 22b96543e5
commit bb2228ea1a
1 changed files with 15 additions and 9 deletions
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@ -196,10 +196,9 @@ void cmTarget::DefineProperties(cmake *cm)
cm->DefineProperty
("HAS_CXX", cmProperty::TARGET,
"Force a target to use the CXX linker.",
"Setting HAS_CXX on a target will force the target to use the "
"C++ linker (and C++ runtime libraries) for linking even if the "
"target has no C++ code in it.");
"Link the target using the C++ linker tool (obselete).",
"This is equivalent to setting the LINKER_LANGUAGE property to CXX. "
"See that property's documentation for details.");
cm->DefineProperty
("IMPLICIT_DEPENDS_INCLUDE_TRANSFORM", cmProperty::TARGET,
@ -418,11 +417,18 @@ void cmTarget::DefineProperties(cmake *cm)
cm->DefineProperty
("LINKER_LANGUAGE", cmProperty::TARGET,
"What tool to use for linking, based on language.",
"The LINKER_LANGUAGE property is used to change the tool "
"used to link an executable or shared library. The default is "
"set the language to match the files in the library. CXX and C "
"are common values for this property.");
"Specifies language whose link tool should be used (obselete).",
"For executables, shared libraries, and modules, this sets the "
"language whose link tool is used to link the target "
"(such as \"C\" or \"CXX\"). "
"CMake 2.6 and below select a linker language automatically "
"based on the languages compiled into the target. "
"This property overrides the default in case one of the "
"linked libraries uses another language. "
"A typical example is a C executable linking to a static archive "
"containing C++ object files. "
"CMake 2.8 and above account for languages in linked targets "
"automatically, making this property unnecessary.");
cm->DefineProperty
("LOCATION", cmProperty::TARGET,