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diff --git a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md index db8eed1..9f49831 100644 --- a/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md +++ b/docs/markdown/Reference-manual.md @@ -244,6 +244,12 @@ following. this argument is set to true, Meson captures `stdout` and writes it to the target file. Note that your command argument list may not contain `@OUTPUT@` when capture mode is active. +- `console` keyword argument conflicts with `capture`, and is meant + for commands that are resource-intensive and take a long time to + finish. With the Ninja backend, setting this will add this target + to [Ninja's `console` pool](https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#_the_literal_console_literal_pool), + which has special properties such as not buffering stdout and + serializing all targets in this pool. - `command` command to run to create outputs from inputs. The command may be strings or the return value of functions that return file-like objects such as [`find_program()`](#find_program), |