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author | William Deegan <bill@baddogconsulting.com> | 2022-06-03 17:53:50 (GMT) |
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committer | William Deegan <bill@baddogconsulting.com> | 2022-06-03 17:53:50 (GMT) |
commit | ae46e4569da500e0a9270fda61dd983384f68a3a (patch) | |
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[ci skip] Added blurb about ninja restarting the scons daemon if it detects need to regenerate the build.ninja
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diff --git a/doc/user/external.xml b/doc/user/external.xml index e15f998..0eab32e 100644 --- a/doc/user/external.xml +++ b/doc/user/external.xml @@ -400,9 +400,14 @@ conda install -c conda-forge ninja </para> <para> - When ninja runs the generated &ninja; build file, ninja will launch &scons; as a daemon and feed commands + When &ninja; runs the generated &ninja; build file, &ninja; will launch &scons; as a daemon and feed commands to that &scons; process which &ninja; is unable to build directly. This daemon will stay alive until - explicitly killed or it times out. The timeout is set by &cv-link-NINJA_SCONS_DAEMON_KEEP_ALIVE; . + explicitly killed, or it times out. The timeout is set by &cv-link-NINJA_SCONS_DAEMON_KEEP_ALIVE; . + </para> + + <para> + The daemon will be restarted if any &SConscript; file(s) change or the build changes in a way that &ninja; determines + it needs to regenerate the build.ninja file </para> <para>See:</para> |