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authorBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2023-06-08 13:31:08 +0200
committerBoris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com>2023-06-08 13:48:37 +0200
commit1c30f9e9c4fca846f05e881638920a9beb082fd1 (patch)
tree21c14ea34baca0a25e7fb245e92d2cd19b4ac7e7 /doc/manual.cli
parent957e150b49fce148c51a13bca0aa9f754ac2c4cb (diff)
Add support for buildfile importation
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/manual.cli')
-rw-r--r--doc/manual.cli46
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/doc/manual.cli b/doc/manual.cli
index 28f8e0c..85a6613 100644
--- a/doc/manual.cli
+++ b/doc/manual.cli
@@ -2312,29 +2312,30 @@ If the value of the \c{install} variable is not \c{false}, then it is normally
a relative path with the first path component being one of these names:
\
-name default override
----- ------- --------
-root config.install.root
+name default override
+---- ------- --------
+root config.install.root
-data_root root/ config.install.data_root
-exec_root root/ config.install.exec_root
+data_root root/ config.install.data_root
+exec_root root/ config.install.exec_root
-bin exec_root/bin/ config.install.bin
-sbin exec_root/sbin/ config.install.sbin
-lib exec_root/lib/ config.install.lib
-libexec exec_root/libexec/<project>/ config.install.libexec
-pkgconfig lib/pkgconfig/ config.install.pkgconfig
+bin exec_root/bin/ config.install.bin
+sbin exec_root/sbin/ config.install.sbin
+lib exec_root/lib/ config.install.lib
+libexec exec_root/libexec/<project>/ config.install.libexec
+pkgconfig lib/pkgconfig/ config.install.pkgconfig
-etc data_root/etc/ config.install.etc
-include data_root/include/ config.install.include
-include_arch include/ config.install.include_arch
-share data_root/share/ config.install.share
-data share/<project>/ config.install.data
+etc data_root/etc/ config.install.etc
+include data_root/include/ config.install.include
+include_arch include/ config.install.include_arch
+share data_root/share/ config.install.share
+data share/<project>/ config.install.data
+buildfile share/build2/export/<project>/ config.install.buildfile
-doc share/doc/<project>/ config.install.doc
-legal doc/ config.install.legal
-man share/man/ config.install.man
-man<N> man/man<N>/ config.install.man<N>
+doc share/doc/<project>/ config.install.doc
+legal doc/ config.install.legal
+man share/man/ config.install.man
+man<N> man/man<N>/ config.install.man<N>
\
Let's see what's going on here: The default install directory tree is derived
@@ -6159,6 +6160,7 @@ include data_root/include/<private>/ c.i.include
include_arch include/ c.i.include_arch
share data_root/share/ c.i.share
data share/<private>/<project>/ c.i.data
+buildfile share/build2/export/<project>/ c.i.buildfile
doc share/doc/<private>/<project>/ c.i.doc
legal doc/ c.i.legal
@@ -6181,6 +6183,12 @@ h{*}: install = include/libhello/
h{config}: install = include_arch/libhello/
\
+The \c{buildfile} location is meant for exported buildfiles that can be
+imported by other projects. If a project contains any \c{**.build} buildfiles
+in its \c{build/export/} directory (or \c{**.build2} and \c{build2/export/} in
+the alternative naming scheme), then they are automatically installed into
+this location (recreating subdirectories).
+
The \c{<project>}, \c{<version>}, and \c{<private>} substitutions in these
\c{config.install.*} values are replaced with the project name, version, and
private subdirectory, respectively. If either is empty, then the corresponding