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Help: clarify if(EXISTS) operation for symlinks

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if(EXISTS) resolves symlinks; note this explicitly in its documentation.
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Shoaib Meenai 2019-04-03 17:25:52 -07:00
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@ -88,7 +88,9 @@ Possible conditions are:
``if(EXISTS path-to-file-or-directory)``
True if the named file or directory exists. Behavior is well-defined
only for full paths.
only for full paths. Resolves symbolic links, i.e. if the named file or
directory is a symbolic link, returns true if the target of the
symbolic link exists.
``if(file1 IS_NEWER_THAN file2)``
True if ``file1`` is newer than ``file2`` or if one of the two files doesn't