CMP0009

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FILE GLOB_RECURSE calls should not follow symlinks by default.

In CMake 2.6.1 and below, :command:file(GLOB_RECURSE) calls would follow through symlinks, sometimes coming up with unexpectedly large result sets because of symlinks to top level directories that contain hundreds of thousands of files.

This policy determines whether or not to follow symlinks encountered during a :command:file(GLOB_RECURSE) call. The OLD behavior for this policy is to follow the symlinks. The NEW behavior for this policy is not to follow the symlinks by default, but only if FOLLOW_SYMLINKS is given as an additional argument to the FILE command.

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