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| author | Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk> | 2011-08-27 01:25:57 (GMT) |
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| committer | Peter Collingbourne <peter@pcc.me.uk> | 2011-09-03 22:05:35 (GMT) |
| commit | 85740c2ddbb2aa0d523c997187442385a191fb64 (patch) | |
| tree | 505687e9f44d3a0a1d29d979c1d51e555906fdc0 /doc | |
| parent | 769bb7d69bfd4bd120732bc6807e6f03bacfac16 (diff) | |
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Support for rebuilding and reloading manifest files
This introduces support for rebuilding the top-level manifest file
using a provided build statement, and reloading it before building
the user-requested targets.
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diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 112aac5..8ab2195 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -253,6 +253,10 @@ statement to the rule (for example, if the rule needs "the file extension of the first input"), pass that through as an extra variable, like how `cflags` is passed above. +If the top-level Ninja file is specified as an output of any build +statement and it is out of date, Ninja will rebuild and reload it +before building the targets requested by the user. + The `phony` rule ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |