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1 files changed, 7 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.asciidoc b/doc/manual.asciidoc index aea1784..fcf3db3 100644 --- a/doc/manual.asciidoc +++ b/doc/manual.asciidoc @@ -783,8 +783,7 @@ keys. `depfile`:: path to an optional `Makefile` that contains extra _implicit dependencies_ (see <<ref_dependencies,the reference on dependency types>>). This is explicitly to support C/C++ header - dependencies; see <<ref_headers,the full discussion>>. `out`, `in`, and - `in_newline` are not shell-quoted when used to set `depfile`. + dependencies; see <<ref_headers,the full discussion>>. `deps`:: _(Available since Ninja 1.3.)_ if present, must be one of `gcc` or `msvc` to specify special dependency processing. See @@ -807,9 +806,9 @@ keys. 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`. (`$in` is provided - solely for convenience; if you need some subset or variant of this +`in`:: the space-separated list of files provided as inputs to the build line + referencing this `rule`, shell-quoted if it appears in commands. (`$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.) @@ -818,8 +817,8 @@ keys. `$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`. +`out`:: the space-separated list of files provided as outputs to the build line + referencing this `rule`, shell-quoted if it appears in commands. `restat`:: if present, causes Ninja to re-stat the command's outputs after execution of the command. Each output whose modification time @@ -831,8 +830,7 @@ keys. response file for the given command, i.e. write the selected string (`rspfile_content`) to the given file (`rspfile`) before calling the command and delete the file after successful execution of the - command. `out`, `in`, and `in_newline` are not shell-quoted when used to set - `rspfile`. + command. + This is particularly useful on Windows OS, where the maximal length of a command line is limited and response files must be used instead. |