Help: Refine COMPILE_OPTIONS property documentation

Make wording of the directory and target properties more consitent
and complementary.  Specify that the value is a ";-list" with a link
to the cmake-language(7) manual section on lists.
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Brad King 2015-03-31 08:55:16 -04:00
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List of options to pass to the compiler.
This property specifies the list of options given so far to the
:command:`add_compile_options` command.
This property holds a :ref:`;-list <CMake Language Lists>` of options
given so far to the :command:`add_compile_options` command.
This property is used to initialize the :prop_tgt:`COMPILE_OPTIONS` target
property when a target is created, which is used by the generators to set

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List of options to pass to the compiler.
This property specifies the list of options specified so far for this
property.
This property holds a :ref:`;-list <CMake Language Lists>` of options
specified so far for its target. Use the :command:`target_compile_options`
command to append more options.
This property is intialized by the :prop_dir:`COMPILE_OPTIONS` directory
property, which is used by the generators to set the options for the
compiler.
property when a target is created, and is used by the generators to set
the options for the compiler.
Contents of ``COMPILE_OPTIONS`` may use "generator expressions" with the
syntax ``$<...>``. See the :manual:`cmake-generator-expressions(7)` manual