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authorKaren Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com>2018-11-30 13:43:25 +0300
committerKaren Arutyunov <karen@codesynthesis.com>2018-11-30 13:43:25 +0300
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Document that machine name components cnannot be empty
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@@ -90,9 +90,10 @@ example, the same machine can normally be used to produce 32/64-bit and
debug/release builds.
The machine configuration is \i{approximately} encoded in its \i{machine
-name}. The machine name is a list of components separated with \c{-}. Each
-component can contain alpha-numeric characters, underscores, dots, and pluses
-with the whole id being a portably-valid path component.
+name}. The machine name is a list of components separated with \c{-}.
+Components cannot be empty and must contain only alpha-numeric characters,
+underscores, dots, and pluses with the whole id being a portably-valid path
+component.
The encoding is approximate in a sense that it captures only what's important
to distinguish in a particular \c{bbot} deployment.