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CMake/Help/envvar/CUDAHOSTCXX.rst
Raul Tambre ad6cd1074b Help: Correct CUDAHOSTCXX and CUDAARCHS as having higher precedence
For CUDAHOSTCXX the behaviour seems to have been like this since the
introduction of it in commit 9cf5b98d ("CUDA: Prefer environment variables
CUDACXX and CUDAHOSTCXX.", 2016-11-08) and is likely unintentional judging by
the wording of the commit.

The documentation mistake seems to be a copy-paste error from when all the
environment variables were documented in commit e6b77c5f ("Help: Document
CMake's environment variables", 2017-09-01).
Describe this explicitly as it is unlike all other similar environment
variables.

For CUDAARCHS we got it wrong from the get-go in commit c4ae9384 ("CUDA:
Initialize CMAKE_CUDA_ARCHITECTURES using $ENV{CUDAARCHS}", 2020-11-24).

Correcting either to follow the more standard precedence behaviour will require
a policy.

Fixes #23081.
2022-01-15 21:51:21 +02:00

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CUDAHOSTCXX
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.. versionadded:: 3.8
.. include:: ENV_VAR.txt
Preferred executable for compiling host code when compiling ``CUDA``
language files. Will only be used by CMake on the first configuration to
determine ``CUDA`` host compiler, after which the value for ``CUDAHOSTCXX`` is
stored in the cache as :variable:`CMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER`. This environment
variable is preferred over :variable:`CMAKE_CUDA_HOST_COMPILER`.
This environment variable is primarily meant for use with projects that
enable ``CUDA`` as a first-class language.
.. note::
Ignored when using :ref:`Visual Studio Generators`.
.. versionadded:: 3.13
The :module:`FindCUDA`
module will use this variable to initialize its ``CUDA_HOST_COMPILER`` setting.