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| author | Andrey Malets <andrey.malets@gmail.com> | 2014-09-06 17:28:05 (GMT) |
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| committer | Andrey Malets <andrey.malets@gmail.com> | 2014-09-06 17:31:39 (GMT) |
| commit | 45aa2085f984b707ed3f8543317eb4952af0158f (patch) | |
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Document target^ syntax.
Added a note into the documentation about interesting target^ syntax
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diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index fcf3db3..07ecfcc 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -180,6 +180,12 @@ Run `ninja`. By default, it looks for a file named `build.ninja` in the current directory and builds all out-of-date targets. You can specify which targets (files) to build as command line arguments. +There is also a special syntax `target^` for specifying a target +as the first output of some rule containing the source you put in +the command line, if one exists. For example, if you specify target as +`foo.c^` then `foo.o` will get built (assuming you have those targets +in your build files). + `ninja -h` prints help output. Many of Ninja's flags intentionally match those of Make; e.g `ninja -C build -j 20` changes into the `build` directory and runs 20 build commands in parallel. (Note that |