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| author | Nixon Enraght-Moony <nixon.emoony@gmail.com> | 2021-01-29 18:34:58 (GMT) |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2021-01-29 18:34:58 (GMT) |
| commit | 942a523a7336da410e74fe5f72015fbc5ae2067a (patch) | |
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Clarify purpose for implicit dependencies
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diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index e1ae083..8fd5d86 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -949,8 +949,9 @@ source file of a compile command. + This is for expressing dependencies that don't show up on the command line of the command; for example, for a rule that runs a -script, the script itself should be an implicit dependency, as -changes to the script should cause the output to rebuild. +script that reads a hardcoded file, the hardcoded file should +be an implicit dependency, as changes to the file should cause +the output to rebuild, even though it doesn't show up in the arguments. + Note that dependencies as loaded through depfiles have slightly different semantics, as described in the <<ref_rule,rule reference>>. |