From 02e9335d9c7aeba99c070ee287055867ac0bf632 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: scivision <scivision@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2026 00:54:02 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] Help: Document that `cmake --preset` supports `-B` to
 override the build dir

---
 Help/manual/cmake.1.rst | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
index aea477e1ae..62b8074c6f 100644
--- a/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
+++ b/Help/manual/cmake.1.rst
@@ -707,6 +707,11 @@ Options
  if the preset sets a variable called ``MYVAR`` to ``1``, but the user sets
  it to ``2`` with a ``-D`` argument, the value ``2`` is preferred.
 
+ .. versionadded:: 3.21
+   The ``-B`` option may optionally be specified with a different binary
+   directory than the one specified by the ``binaryDir`` key of the
+   configure preset.
+
 .. option:: --list-presets[=<type>]
 
  Lists the available presets of the specified ``<type>``.  Valid values for