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authorBen Boeckel <ben.boeckel@kitware.com>2018-10-03 13:31:01 (GMT)
committerBen Boeckel <mathstuf@gmail.com>2018-11-09 15:51:17 (GMT)
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manual: mention the "invalid parameter" case
This happens often enough and the error message is quite unhelpful. Mention this error explicitly in the documentation.
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@@ -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.
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