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diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index 5a66904..1e5b70b 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -356,17 +356,11 @@ consisting of the `rule` keyword and a name for the rule. Then follows an indented set of `variable = value` lines. The basic example above declares a new rule named `cc`, along with the -command to run. (In the context of a rule, the `command` variable is -special and defines the command to run. A full list of special -variables is provided in <<ref_rule,the reference>>.) - -Within the context of a rule, three additional special variables are -available: `$in` expands to the list of input files (`foo.c`) and -`$out` to the output file (`foo.o`) for the command. For use with -`$rspfile_content`, there is also `$in_newline`, which is the same as -`$in`, except that multiple inputs are separated by `\n`, rather than -spaces. - +command to run. In the context of a rule, the `command` variable +defines the command to run, `$in` expands to the list of +input files (`foo.c`), and `$out` to the output files (`foo.o`) for the +command. A full list of special variables is provided in +<<ref_rule,the reference>>. Build statements ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ @@ -722,6 +716,20 @@ aborting due to a missing input. rebuilt if the command line changes; and secondly, they are not cleaned by default. +`in`:: the shell-quoted space-separated list of files provided as + inputs to the build line referencing this `rule`. (`$in` is provided + solely for convenience; if you need some subset or variant of this + list of files, just construct a new variable with that list and use + that instead.) + +`in_newline`:: the same as `$in` except that multiple inputs are + separated by newlines rather than spaces. (For use with + `$rspfile_content`; this works around a bug in the MSVC linker where + it uses a fixed-size buffer for processing input.) + +`out`:: the shell-quoted space-separated list of files provided as + outputs to the build line referencing this `rule`. + `restat`:: if present, causes Ninja to re-stat the command's outputs after execution of the command. Each output whose modification time the command did not change will be treated as though it had never @@ -748,10 +756,6 @@ rule link build myapp.exe: link a.obj b.obj [possibly many other .obj files] ---- -Finally, the special `$in` and `$out` variables expand to the -shell-quoted space-separated list of files provided to the `build` -line referencing this `rule`. - [[ref_dependencies]] Build dependencies ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |