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| author | Klaus Aehlig <klaus.aehlig@huawei.com> | 2022-05-09 17:10:42 +0200 |
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| committer | Klaus Aehlig <klaus.aehlig@huawei.com> | 2022-05-10 15:45:29 +0200 |
| commit | 534f233ce9ca50aa05d16b465e42079bec7edb60 (patch) | |
| tree | b5dc3f971641f030041c9f892a5fd9c7857f3298 /doc/concepts/rules.org | |
| parent | 77575870a0ce63abd8b87ff64080075a554daf93 (diff) | |
| download | justbuild-534f233ce9ca50aa05d16b465e42079bec7edb60.tar.gz | |
Document built-in rules
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diff --git a/doc/concepts/rules.org b/doc/concepts/rules.org index f5cfdd8c..a8837ae9 100644 --- a/doc/concepts/rules.org +++ b/doc/concepts/rules.org @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -* Rules +* User-defined Rules Targets are defined in terms of high-level concepts like "libraries", "binaries", etc. In order to translate these high-level definitions @@ -9,7 +9,11 @@ single point how all targets of a given type are built. Rules are defined in rules files (by default named ~RULES~). Those contain a JSON object mapping rule names to their rule definition. -For rules, the same naming scheme as for targets applies. +For rules, the same naming scheme as for targets applies. However, +built-in rules (always named by a single string) take precedence +in naming; to explicitly refer to a rule defined in the current +module, the module has to be specified, possibly by a relative +path, e.g., ~["./", ".", "install"]~. ** Basic components of a rule |