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| author | Jan Niklas Hasse <jhasse@bixense.com> | 2021-03-05 22:51:32 +0100 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-03-05 22:51:32 +0100 |
| commit | ac0fe07d9e924661c6c443f4a9503d4f4308fb20 (patch) | |
| tree | 359f46d7dfbf36ca372bc62c84f9eb4af7fa63c9 | |
| parent | 0c11d6e4dc3adcf010a86b03ca9ce9e855eedf42 (diff) | |
| parent | 942a523a7336da410e74fe5f72015fbc5ae2067a (diff) | |
| download | ninja-ac0fe07d9e924661c6c443f4a9503d4f4308fb20.tar.gz | |
Merge pull request #1907 from aDotInTheVoid/patch-1
Clarify purpose for implicit dependencies
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual.asciidoc | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 54403ac..a5012b4 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -980,8 +980,9 @@ source file of a compile command. + This is for expressing dependencies that don't show up on the command line of the command; for example, for a rule that runs a -script, the script itself should be an implicit dependency, as -changes to the script should cause the output to rebuild. +script that reads a hardcoded file, the hardcoded file should +be an implicit dependency, as changes to the file should cause +the output to rebuild, even though it doesn't show up in the arguments. + Note that dependencies as loaded through depfiles have slightly different semantics, as described in the <<ref_rule,rule reference>>. |