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| author | Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> | 2009-02-13 09:12:33 (GMT) |
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| committer | Tarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com> | 2009-02-13 09:12:33 (GMT) |
| commit | e6aeba7444471157c74e5f291e5c196e74ec1c5c (patch) | |
| tree | 5d9c3802d23848f90c6097a5aac341870a8d2f72 /Doc/distutils | |
| parent | 5b2cb1d56e3366dd75db86acacdbcb4b8cb8f62d (diff) | |
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#5158: added documentation on the depends option in distutils extensions
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diff --git a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst index 997dab7..9308288 100644 --- a/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst +++ b/Doc/distutils/setupscript.rst @@ -347,6 +347,10 @@ symbols (functions or variables) to be exported. This option is not needed when building compiled extensions: Distutils will automatically add ``initmodule`` to the list of exported symbols. +The :option:`depends` option is a list of files that the extension depends on +(for example header files). The build command will call the compiler on the +sources to rebuild extension if any on this files has been modified since the +previous build. Relationships between Distributions and Packages ================================================ |