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authorBrad King <brad.king@kitware.com>2015-08-03 14:19:49 (GMT)
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Help: Refine RULE_LAUNCH_{COMPILE,CUSTOM,LINK} global property docs
Link to the generators that implement these properties. Explain in more detail why other generators ignore them.
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Specify a launcher for link rules.
-Makefile generators prefix link and archive commands with the given
-launcher command line. This is intended to allow launchers to
-intercept build problems with high granularity. Non-Makefile
-generators currently ignore this property.
+:ref:`Makefile Generators` and the :generator:`Ninja` generator prefix
+link and archive commands with the given launcher command line.
+This is intended to allow launchers to intercept build problems
+with high granularity. Other generators ignore this property
+because their underlying build systems provide no hook to wrap
+individual commands with a launcher.