Help: Explain new behavior of cmake --build in Ninja Multi-Config

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Kyle Edwards
2020-02-04 14:21:25 -05:00
parent 16a4ba5b31
commit 79e5b3c46a

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@@ -15,6 +15,11 @@ configurations (with ``<Config>`` being the configuration name.) No
``build.ninja`` file is generated by default (see below for how to generate
it.)
``cmake --build . --config <Config>`` will always use ``build-<Config>.ninja``
to build. If no ``--config`` argument is specified, ``cmake --build .`` will
default to ``build-Debug.ninja``, unless a ``build.ninja`` is generated (see
below), in which case that will be used instead.
Each ``build-<Config>.ninja`` file contains ``<target>`` targets as well as
``<target>:<Config>`` targets, where ``<Config>`` is the same as the
configuration specified in ``build-<Config>.ninja`` Additionally, if