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diff --git a/doc/man/scons.1 b/doc/man/scons.1 index 1e3e47b..f080bd7 100644 --- a/doc/man/scons.1 +++ b/doc/man/scons.1 @@ -1071,6 +1071,19 @@ of 0 means to always use the cached signature, no matter how old the file is. .TP +.RI --md5-chunksize= KILOBYTES +Set the block size used to compute MD5 signatures to +.IR KILOBYTES . +This value determines the size of the chunks which are read in at once when +computing MD5 signatures. Files below that size are fully stored in memory +before performing the signature computation while bigger files are read in +block-by-block. A huge block-size leads to high memory consumption while a very +small block-size slows down the build considerably. + +The default value is to use a chunk size of 64 kilobytes, which should +be appropriate for most uses. + +.TP -n, --just-print, --dry-run, --recon No execute. Print the commands that would be executed to build any out-of-date target files, but do not execute the commands. |