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Merge topic 'help-find-library' into release-4.0

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4b7ed0ec79 Help: Clarify find_library() behavior for suffixed libraries

Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !10322
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Brad King
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@@ -52,8 +52,10 @@ for it. The ``NAMES_PER_DIR`` option tells this command to consider one
directory at a time and search for all names in it.
Each library name given to the ``NAMES`` option is first considered
as a library file name and then considered with platform-specific
prefixes (e.g. ``lib``) and suffixes (e.g. ``.so``). Therefore one
as is, if it contains a library suffix, and then considered with
platform-specific prefixes (e.g. ``lib``) and suffixes (e.g. ``.so``),
as defined by the variables :variable:`CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_PREFIXES` and
:variable:`CMAKE_FIND_LIBRARY_SUFFIXES`. Therefore one
may specify library file names such as ``libfoo.a`` directly.
This can be used to locate static libraries on UNIX-like systems.