[cmake-developers] Preparing for 2.8.11-rc1

Stephen Kelly steveire at gmail.com
Tue Mar 5 17:05:02 EST 2013


Stephen Kelly wrote:

> So, I think it's mature enough for release now, yes.

It might be worth documenting it a bit more prominently though...

Any opinion on this?

Thanks,


Author: Stephen Kelly <steveire at gmail.com>
Date:   Tue Mar 5 23:01:22 2013 +0100

    Mention that IMPORTED targets may be created by a find_package call.

diff --git a/Source/cmFindPackageCommand.cxx 
b/Source/cmFindPackageCommand.cxx
index 470ceca..cf60351 100644
--- a/Source/cmFindPackageCommand.cxx
+++ b/Source/cmFindPackageCommand.cxx
@@ -95,7 +95,8 @@ void cmFindPackageCommand::GenerateDocumentation()
     "Finds and loads settings from an external project.  "
     "<package>_FOUND will be set to indicate whether the package was found.  
"
     "When the package is found package-specific information is provided "
-    "through variables documented by the package itself.  "
+    "through variables documented by the package itself.  Packages may also 
"
+    "define imported targets for use with target_link_libraries.  "
     "The QUIET option disables messages if the package cannot be found.  "
     "The MODULE option disables the second signature documented below.  "
     "The REQUIRED option stops processing with an error message if the "






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