Help: Clarify scope of `if(TARGET)` expression

63c5808f · Bartosz · Brad King · a336e438 · 63c5808f
Commit 63c5808f authored Jan 28, 2016 by Bartosz Committed by Brad King Jan 28, 2016
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@@ -67,9 +67,10 @@ Possible expressions are:
 True if the given name is an existing policy (of the form ``CMP<NNNN>``).

 ``if(TARGET target-name)``
- True if the given name is an existing logical target name such as those
- created by the :command:`add_executable`, :command:`add_library`, or
- :command:`add_custom_target` commands.
+ True if the given name is an existing logical target name created
+ by a call to the :command:`add_executable`, :command:`add_library`,
+ or :command:`add_custom_target` command that has already been invoked
+ (in any directory).

 ``if(TEST test-name)``
 True if the given name is an existing test name created by the