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| author | Nico Weber <nicolasweber@gmx.de> | 2014-12-04 05:32:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Nico Weber <nicolasweber@gmx.de> | 2014-12-04 05:32:51 (GMT) |
| commit | 725d38483d3bd8a455bb2e765da14ff8523b3aad (patch) | |
| tree | 2cb322483858447e22565e270f0d7b3963ba00b1 /doc | |
| parent | 1e4eb87c15118b3cc369e65a891ce290e727e7d8 (diff) | |
| parent | 45aa2085f984b707ed3f8543317eb4952af0158f (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #809 from andrey-malets/doc-for-first-output
Document target^ syntax.
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diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 3757c86..217ff28 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 By default, it looks for a file named `build.ninja` in the current directory and builds all out-of-date targets.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 |