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diff --git a/doc/design_notes.md b/doc/design_notes.md index 600aa90..afe5dad 100644 --- a/doc/design_notes.md +++ b/doc/design_notes.md @@ -89,6 +89,11 @@ But if any of those files are missing we call the step dirty without bothering to compute a hash. In this manner we never compute a hash involving any missing files. +Further, CMake generates Ninja files that claim a build step generates a +[depfile](https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#_depfile) when it doesn't. Ninja +treats this as an empty depfile, not an error. (See +[#80](https://github.com/evmar/n2/issues/80).) + ## Parsing Parsing .ninja files is part of the critical path for n2, because it must be |