diff --git a/Help/command/find_library.rst b/Help/command/find_library.rst
index ba046faaff..fea5e7458b 100644
--- a/Help/command/find_library.rst
+++ b/Help/command/find_library.rst
@@ -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.