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| author | Christoph Ruediger <christoph@ruediger.engineering> | 2018-01-16 14:10:26 (GMT) |
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| committer | Christoph Ruediger <christoph@ruediger.engineering> | 2018-01-16 14:10:26 (GMT) |
| commit | 60216e158fe2f9e68d1dff6676852c45e9d1ffc2 (patch) | |
| tree | bd7a1cbac60770d89f5f68d27b228112a6185728 | |
| parent | 27cbbf0ed047ef4adbe33b3a0bb21812577660b7 (diff) | |
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Help: Improved MAIN_DEPENDENCY documentation of add_custom_command()
| -rw-r--r-- | Help/command/add_custom_command.rst | 6 |
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diff --git a/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst b/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst index 1b0aa14..d4f644a 100644 --- a/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst +++ b/Help/command/add_custom_command.rst @@ -146,8 +146,10 @@ The options are: Specify the primary input source file to the command. This is treated just like any value given to the ``DEPENDS`` option but also suggests to Visual Studio generators where to hang - the custom command. At most one custom command may specify a - given source file as its main dependency. + the custom command. Each source file may have at most one command + specifying it as its main dependency. A compile command (i.e. for a + library or an executable) counts as an implicit main dependency which + gets silently overwritten by a custom command specification. ``OUTPUT`` Specify the output files the command is expected to produce. |