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authorTarek Ziadé <ziade.tarek@gmail.com>2009-02-13 09:15:20 (GMT)
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svn+ssh://pythondev@svn.python.org/python/trunk ........ r69566 | tarek.ziade | 2009-02-13 10:12:33 +0100 (Fri, 13 Feb 2009) | 1 line #5158: added documentation on the depends option in distutils extensions ........
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@@ -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.
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