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authorRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2021-02-25 16:55:39 +0100
committerRichard Levitte <levitte@openssl.org>2021-03-03 14:47:01 +0100
commit3f399e3787788b1cc3832e254c53cda42873d847 (patch)
tree9eb93a058ff17e99b3c1b66926b77ff25f036134 /doc/internal/man7
parent8593ff00cc66e330228164ae5422f80ef93ed35d (diff)
build.info: Add the possibility to add dependencies on raw targets
We need to add something for the 'tests' target to depend on, so a special syntax for those is introduced: DEPEND[|tests|]=fipsmodule.cnf Reviewed-by: Tomas Mraz <tomas@openssl.org> (Merged from https://github.com/openssl/openssl/pull/14320)
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@@ -444,6 +444,12 @@ rather than the specific I<items>.
The I<items> may be any program, library, module, script, or any
filename used as a value anywhere.
+The I<items> may also be literal build file targets. Those are
+recognised by being surrounded be vertical bars (also known as the
+"pipe" character), C<|>. For example:
+
+ DEPEND[|tests|]=fipsmodule.cnf
+
B<DEPEND> statements may have attributes, which apply to each
individual dependency in such a statement. For example: