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| author | Nico Weber <nicolasweber@gmx.de> | 2015-10-21 20:07:02 -0700 |
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| committer | Nico Weber <nicolasweber@gmx.de> | 2015-10-21 20:07:02 -0700 |
| commit | 083b6b040681ec3d8ec3cd40f20406b9e6ec8d56 (patch) | |
| tree | 4b1d0cd570022c4ed6a53d5d14e000737da3f258 | |
| parent | f4dfefda95ef983275e968c8ecbee2c567592ecd (diff) | |
| parent | 3f5b682bfd1f13c55a1eb6b783cbd3c61f664a7b (diff) | |
| download | ninja-083b6b040681ec3d8ec3cd40f20406b9e6ec8d56.tar.gz | |
Merge pull request #1015 from moroten/docs-relpath
Describe why to use relative paths
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diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 003c71e..47b7456 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -598,6 +598,11 @@ rule cc command = cl /showIncludes -c $in /Fo$out ---- +If the include directory directives are using absolute paths, your depfile +may result in a mixture of relative and absolute paths. Paths used by other +build rules need to match exactly. Therefore, it is recommended to use +relative paths in these cases. + [[ref_pool]] Pools ~~~~~ @@ -889,6 +894,9 @@ header file before starting a subsequent compilation step. (Once the header is used in compilation, a generated dependency file will then express the implicit dependency.) +File paths are compared as is, which means that an absolute path and a +relative path, pointing to the same file, are considered different by Ninja. + Variable expansion ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |