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Brad King ad3c2c0b03 Help: Normalize and consolidate standard policy advice paragraph
Every policy's documentation has a paragraph on what version of CMake
introduced it, how to set the policy, and whether CMake warns if the
policy is not set.  The wording of this paragraph has diverged across
policies over time.  Factor the paragraph out into a standard advice
document included by every policy.
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CMP0038
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Targets may not link directly to themselves.
CMake 2.8.12 and lower allowed a build target to link to itself directly with
a :command:`target_link_libraries` call. This is an indicator of a bug in
user code.
The ``OLD`` behavior for this policy is to ignore targets which list themselves
in their own link implementation. The ``NEW`` behavior for this policy is to
report an error if a target attempts to link to itself.
.. |INTRODUCED_IN_CMAKE_VERSION| replace:: 3.0
.. |WARNS_OR_DOES_NOT_WARN| replace:: warns
.. include:: STANDARD_ADVICE.txt
.. include:: DEPRECATED.txt