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| author | Ben Boeckel <ben.boeckel@kitware.com> | 2018-10-03 09:31:01 -0400 |
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| committer | Ben Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com> | 2018-11-09 10:51:17 -0500 |
| commit | 6a9411e784c58492e62a5dcb7d5d1aadfb2e1830 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c51a1efcdcc3adfdb33104daa444ffb538277b1 | |
| parent | 99c5c2287b11c8bab05fb2a8cf89dc4856c708bc (diff) | |
| download | ninja-6a9411e784c58492e62a5dcb7d5d1aadfb2e1830.tar.gz | |
manual: mention the "invalid parameter" case
This happens often enough and the error message is quite unhelpful.
Mention this error explicitly in the documentation.
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/manual.asciidoc | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 9e55c02..db164e7 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -880,7 +880,8 @@ quoting rules are deterimined by the called program, which on Windows are usually provided by the C library. If you need shell interpretation of the command (such as the use of `&&` to chain multiple commands), make the command execute the Windows shell by -prefixing the command with `cmd /c`. +prefixing the command with `cmd /c`. Ninja may error with "invalid parameter" +which usually indicates that the command line length has been exceeded. [[ref_outputs]] Build outputs |