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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2019-07-14 08:35:35 +0200
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2019-07-14 08:35:35 +0200
commitb4de7f5943eb16fa393df953e97eb2ba8cc35df1 (patch)
tree20239aec5f6b0ec44acd691ad98e1a4b38957c8b /src/engine/SCons/Platform/__init__.xml
parent85dbcc01ae3f6b10849aa71faef6946d8e16d55f (diff)
parent697e33ed224b539a42ff68121f7497f5bbf941b2 (diff)
Update upstream source from tag 'upstream/3.0.5'
Update to upstream version '3.0.5' with Debian dir 03c2cf71b97fe65fcfd82c7f4a3862fe2b35614d
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diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Platform/__init__.xml b/src/engine/SCons/Platform/__init__.xml
index cb83a9f..60bfb38 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Platform/__init__.xml
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Platform/__init__.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!--
-Copyright (c) 2001 - 2017 The SCons Foundation
+Copyright (c) 2001 - 2019 The SCons Foundation
This file is processed by the bin/SConsDoc.py module.
See its __doc__ string for a discussion of the format.
@@ -232,13 +232,29 @@ The suffix used for shared object file names.
<summary>
<para>
The prefix for a temporary file used
-to execute lines longer than $MAXLINELENGTH.
-The default is '@'.
-This may be set for toolchains that use other values,
-such as '-@' for the diab compiler
+to store lines lines longer than $MAXLINELENGTH
+as operations which call out to a shell will fail
+if the line is too long, which particularly
+impacts linking.
+The default is '@', which works for the Microsoft
+and GNU toolchains on Windows.
+Set this appropriately for other toolchains,
+for example '-@' for the diab compiler
or '-via' for ARM toolchain.
</para>
</summary>
</cvar>
+<cvar name="TEMPFILESUFFIX">
+<summary>
+<para>
+The suffix used for the temporary file name
+used for long command lines. The name should
+include the dot ('.') if one is wanted as
+it will not be added automatically.
+The default is '.lnk'.
+</para>
+</summary>
+</cvar>
+
</sconsdoc>