File sets have evolved to be more ubiquitous throughout a CMake build,
outside the scope of simply the target_sources command. Move general
information to the `cmake-buildsystem(7)` manual and keep only
reference information specific to the syntax of target_sources in its
command page. Sprinkle some more cross-references to the new location.
Fixes: #27900
Suggested-By: Marc Chevrier <marc.chevrier@gmail.com>
Make diagnostics into Sphinx objects so that they can be more readily
cross-referenced. (This is also needed to enable --help-diagnostic.)
Update various places that can make use of the same. Significantly
expand the documentation on controlling diagnostics.
Add `-Winstall-absolute-destination` diagnostic to warn or
error when an install command has an absolute destination.
This allow projects to enforce the best practice of not allowing
absolute install DESTINATIONS.
In commit 51f39a0f32 (Help: Fix install(SBOM) argument typo, 2026-02-27,
v4.3.0-rc2~8^2) the typo was fixed in the wrong signature. Revert that
and fix the correct signature.
Try to be a bit more consistent about:
- Placing angle brackets around text which serves as a placeholder
rather than being literal.
- Using curly brackets rather than angle brackets to denote groups where
one of the options is required.
- Describing optional list arguments like `<x>...` rather than
`[<x>...]`. (Instances of lists not associated with keywords are
intentionally left as-is, however.)
Also, teach our CMake lexer to understand curly braces used as above
(prior uses were only in parsed literals without syntax highlighting),
and to highlight them (and remaining uses of angle braces) as the type
Punctuation rather than the type Operator, for consistency with square
braces.
Remove basic CPS import and export from 'experimental' status. Update
documentation and tests accordingly.
Note that mapped exports (CMAKE_EXPERIMENTAL_MAPPED_PACKAGE_INFO) are
still experimental.
Add the ability to generate CPS package information when install(EXPORT)
is used. This relies on additional information to be passed to CMake,
and is intended as a way of getting CPS out of existing projects without
needing to make changes to the projects' CMakeLists.txt. (Particularly,
this feature is intended for package distributors, not project authors.)
Revert commit b70ef48b27 (install(DIRECTORY): Add
EXCLUDE_EMPTY_DIRECTORIES option, 2025-04-20, v4.1.0-rc1~212^2).
The implementation had at least two problems:
* It did not exclude the top-level directory if empty.
* It did not exclude non-empty directories whose contents are
all filtered out.
Revert the feature pending a revised implementation.
Issue: #19189Closes: #27092
Add `LICENSE` and `DEFAULT_LICENSE` arguments to the `PACKAGE_INFO`
modes of the `install` and `export` commands. If not otherwise
specified, the `LICENSE` will be taken from the project's
`SPDX_LICENSE`, if available.
Replace the 'project-description-string' descriptor in the `project`,
`export` and `install` commands with 'description-string'. This is more
consistent, as none of the other descriptors include 'project-', and
it's arguably wrong in the context of `export`/`install`, as the
description applies to a package.
Add support for specifying CPS's supplemental `description` and
`website` attributes. Add ability to inherit these from the `project()`,
similar to how version information can be inherited.
Modify {export,install}(PACKAGE_INFO) commands to inherit version
information from the current project in situations where it seems
reasonable to do so. Add an option to explicitly request inheritance
from a specific project.
This leverages the recently added project(COMPAT_VERSION).
Add documentation for several options related to CPS export/install that
were not previously documented. Add note to update documentation when
(if) COMPAT_VERSION support is not specific to CPS.
EXCLUDE_EMPTY_DIRECTORIES option excludes empty directories under the
directory to install. A directory is considered not empty if and only if
the directory contains at least one file or one symbolic link or one
none-empty sub-directory.
Closes: #19189
This makes it easier to find documentation for each option.
Previously they were sprinkled throughout prose. It also
provides a good place for ``versionadded`` directives.
The file generated by install(EXPORT) computes _IMPORT_PREFIX
in a way that assumes a normalized path. If the DESTINATION
contains any ../ components, the computed _IMPORT_PREFIX
would be wrong. Force the DESTINATION path to be normalized,
subject to the new CMP0176 policy.
Also normalize all other DESTINATION paths for consistency,
except for INCLUDES DESTINATION, which is not strictly a
destination but rather a search path to add.
Fixes: #26252
Add initial support for exporting (install only, for now) Common Package
Specification (https://cps-org.github.io/cps/) format package
descriptions. This has some limitations, such as not supporting
generator expressions (as these cannot be portably exported), and only
partially supporting transitive dependencies, but should be usable for
at least some simple cases. (Actually, $<LINK_ONLY> is theoretically
supportable, but is not yet implemented.)
This still needs tests; these will be added in the next commit. Other
potential improvements include support for language-specific compile
definitions and inferring some package properties from project
properties. Additionally, there is no module support yet; this is partly
pending on having a tool agnostic format for providing the necessary
information.
The document's intro claims that the options documented up top are
the ones common to multiple signatures, but `RENAME` is only valid
for `install(FILES ...)`. Move it to that section of the docs.
The note regarding commands superseded by install() somehow wound
up nested under the install(EXPORT) signature, when it has nothing
to do with install(EXPORT). Move it to the top level, immediately
before the Examples section.
Revise the signature and description to explicitly distinguish the
initial group of artifact options from later groups that apply to
a specific kind.
Issue: #25144Fixes: #16362
After switching to the signature directive we no longer need
per-signature sections. Group all the signatures in one section. Add a
table of contents since it is no longer redundant with the synopsis.
Revert commit f09fda97d8 (Help: improve install() documentation of
argument ordering, 2018-01-08, v3.11.0-rc1~126^2). Although the
example it added is correct, its explanation is misleading.
Revert it to make room for an alternative.
Issue: #25144
Issue: #16362
