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| author | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2020-07-12 10:18:05 +0200 |
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| committer | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2020-07-12 10:18:05 +0200 |
| commit | 9cdf198df15726486f68022e74276a28c64f9b9c (patch) | |
| tree | 97662425a2381b70c5413df03036905963dec6d6 /doc/intro.cli | |
| parent | e135a3112b15c88f0601583ca068f8adea7b605d (diff) | |
Mention glue buildfiles in introduction
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/intro.cli')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/intro.cli | 19 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/intro.cli b/doc/intro.cli index cac0030..795b65e 100644 --- a/doc/intro.cli +++ b/doc/intro.cli @@ -1766,6 +1766,7 @@ hello/ ├── libhello/ │ ├── ... │ └── manifest +├── buildfile ├── packages.manifest └── repositories.manifest \ @@ -1774,8 +1775,21 @@ hello/ the project (repository) while \c{manifest} \- to the package.| Besides the \c{libhello} directory the \c{new} command also created the -\c{packages.manifest} file in the root directory of our project. Let's take a -look inside: +\c{buildfile} and \c{packages.manifest} files in the root directory of our +project. First let's take a look inside \c{buildfile}: + +\ +import pkgs = */ + +./: $pkgs +\ + +This is what we call a \i{glue \c{buildfile}}. Its purpose is to \"pull\" +together several packages so that we are able to invoke the build system +driver from the project root. See \l{b#intro-import Target Importation} for +details. + +Now let's examine \c{packages.manifest}: \ $ cat packages.manifest @@ -1858,6 +1872,7 @@ hello/ │ ├── LICENSE -> ../LICENSE │ └── manifest ├── LICENSE +├── buildfile ├── packages.manifest └── repositories.manifest \ |