Merge topic 'export-package-default-off'

9bede5c4ce export: Disable PACKAGE mode user package registry by default

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Acked-by: Lukas Mosimann <lumosimann@gmail.com>
Merge-request: !3041
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Brad King
2019-03-15 14:45:39 +00:00
committed by Kitware Robot
11 changed files with 117 additions and 14 deletions
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@@ -62,8 +62,13 @@ registry that this command creates works only in conjunction with a
package configuration file (``<PackageName>Config.cmake``) that works with the
build tree. In some cases, for example for packaging and for system
wide installations, it is not desirable to write the user package
registry. If the :variable:`CMAKE_EXPORT_NO_PACKAGE_REGISTRY` variable
is enabled, the ``export(PACKAGE)`` command will do nothing.
registry.
By default the ``export(PACKAGE)`` command does nothing (see policy
:policy:`CMP0090`) because populating the user package registry has effects
outside the source and build trees. Set the
:variable:`CMAKE_EXPORT_PACKAGE_REGISTRY` variable to add build directories to
the CMake user package registry.
.. code-block:: cmake