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| author | Luca Boccassi <luca.boccassi@gmail.com> | 2018-09-30 13:53:12 +0100 |
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| committer | Jussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com> | 2019-01-17 20:40:19 +0200 |
| commit | 267792174c9921e6be296086b0c806a684432a1b (patch) | |
| tree | ef988cffbf23a750e71121ac9fa167f17c067273 /docs/markdown | |
| parent | dbe2a296378d93b55c93c2406744ff3de13af6f5 (diff) | |
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custom_target: do not let install override build_by_default
A custom_target, if install is set to true, will always be built by
default even if build_by_default is explicitly set to false.
Ensure that this does not happen if it's set explicitly. To keep
backward compatibility, if build_by_default is not set explicitly and
install is true, set build_by_default to true.
Fixes #4107
Diffstat (limited to 'docs/markdown')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.50.0.md | 8 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index 5436ec3..e913e25 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -266,6 +266,9 @@ following. - `build_by_default` *(added 0.38)* causes, when set to true, to have this target be built by default, that is, when invoking plain `ninja`; the default value is false + *(changed in 0.50)* if `build_by_default` is explicitly set to false, `install` + will no longer override it. If `build_by_default` is not set, `install` will + still determine its default. - `build_always` (deprecated) if `true` this target is always considered out of date and is rebuilt every time. Equivalent to setting both `build_always_stale` and `build_by_default` to true. diff --git a/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.50.0.md b/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.50.0.md index cb4fe0d..a08edfb 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.50.0.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Release-notes-for-0.50.0.md @@ -15,3 +15,11 @@ whose contents should look like this: A short description explaining the new feature and how it should be used. +## custom_target: install no longer overrides build_by_default + +Earlier, if `build_by_default` was set to false and `install` was set to true in +a `custom_target`, `install` would override it and the `custom_target` would +always be built by default. +Now if `build_by_default` is explicitly set to false it will no longer be +overridden. If `build_by_default` is not set, its default will still be +determined by the value of `install` for greater backward compatibility. |