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Help: Add that CMAKE_CACHEFILE_DIR might not be defined

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Merged Tobias Nießen requested to merge tniessen/cmake:help-variables-cmakecachefiledir-might-not-be-defined into master Mar 29, 2022
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CMake only sets CMAKE_CACHEFILE_DIR when writing CMakeCache.txt, so the variable will usually be undefined when CMakeLists.txt runs. Revise its documentation to clarify that CMAKE_BINARY_DIR should be used instead.

I ran into this problem myself, and using CMAKE_BINARY_DIR works even before CMakeLists.txt has been written.

Backport: release

Edited Mar 30, 2022 by Brad King
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Source branch: help-variables-cmakecachefiledir-might-not-be-defined