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@@ -385,22 +385,34 @@ void cmTarget::DefineProperties(cmake *cm)
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cm->DefineProperty
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("LOCATION", cmProperty::TARGET,
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- "Deprecated. Use LOCATION_<CONFIG> or avoid altogether.",
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- "This property is provided for compatibility with CMake 2.4 and below. "
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+ "Read-only location of a target on disk.",
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+ "For an imported target, this read-only property returns the value of "
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+ "the LOCATION_<CONFIG> property for an unspecified configuration "
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+ "<CONFIG> provided by the target.\n"
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+ "For a non-imported target, this property is provided for compatibility "
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+ "with CMake 2.4 and below. "
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"It was meant to get the location of an executable target's output file "
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"for use in add_custom_command. "
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+ "The path may contain a build-system-specific portion that "
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+ "is replaced at build time with the configuration getting built "
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+ "(such as \"$(ConfigurationName)\" in VS). "
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"In CMake 2.6 and above add_custom_command automatically recognizes a "
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"target name in its COMMAND and DEPENDS options and computes the "
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- "target location. Therefore this property need not be used. "
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- "This property is not defined for IMPORTED targets because they "
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- "were not available in CMake 2.4 or below anyway.");
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+ "target location. "
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+ "Therefore this property is not needed for creating custom commands.");
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cm->DefineProperty
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("LOCATION_<CONFIG>", cmProperty::TARGET,
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"Read-only property providing a target location on disk.",
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"A read-only property that indicates where a target's main file is "
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"located on disk for the configuration <CONFIG>. "
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- "The property is defined only for library and executable targets.");
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+ "The property is defined only for library and executable targets. "
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+ "An imported target may provide a set of configurations different "
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+ "from that of the importing project. "
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+ "By default CMake looks for an exact-match but otherwise uses an "
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+ "arbitrary available configuration. "
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+ "Use the MAP_IMPORTED_CONFIG_<CONFIG> property to map imported "
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+ "configurations explicitly.");
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cm->DefineProperty
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("LINK_INTERFACE_LIBRARIES", cmProperty::TARGET,
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@@ -2038,13 +2050,17 @@ const char *cmTarget::GetProperty(const char* prop,
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this->GetType() == cmTarget::MODULE_LIBRARY ||
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this->GetType() == cmTarget::UNKNOWN_LIBRARY)
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{
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- if(!this->IsImported() && strcmp(prop,"LOCATION") == 0)
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+ if(strcmp(prop,"LOCATION") == 0)
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{
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- // Set the LOCATION property of the target. Note that this
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+ // Set the LOCATION property of the target.
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+ //
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+ // For an imported target this is the location of an arbitrary
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+ // available configuration.
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+ //
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+ // For a non-imported target this is deprecated because it
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// cannot take into account the per-configuration name of the
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// target because the configuration type may not be known at
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- // CMake time. It is now deprecated as described in the
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- // documentation.
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+ // CMake time.
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this->SetProperty("LOCATION", this->GetLocation(0));
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}
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