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diff --git a/doc/tutorial/tests.md b/doc/tutorial/tests.md index 671f2cbe..51f38964 100644 --- a/doc/tutorial/tests.md +++ b/doc/tutorial/tests.md @@ -242,6 +242,24 @@ $ cd .. $ rm -rf work ``` +When looking at the reported actions, we also see the difference +between the action graph and the part of the action graph that +is needed to compute the requested artifacts. Targets are always +analyzed completely, including all actions occurring in their +definition. When building, however, only that part of the graph is +traversed that is needed for the requested artifacts. In our case, +the actual test action is not considered in the build, even though +it is part of the definition of the target. + +A larger difference between actions discovered in the analysis and +actions processed during the build can occur when rules only use parts +of a target; consider, e.g., the auxiliary target `just-ext-hdrs` +that collects the (partially generated) header files of the external +dependencies, but not the actual libraries. In this case, the +actions for generating those libraries (compiling sources, calling +the archive tool) are discovered when analyzing the target, but +never visited during the build. + Creating a shell test --------------------- |