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authorPaul Wicking <paul.wicking@qt.io>2018-10-29 12:30:34 +0100
committerJani Heikkinen <jani.heikkinen@qt.io>2018-11-02 12:40:59 +0000
commitafba8fcc4914b80be7733a059b26411bdde510eb (patch)
tree0c7771caba773fc2be377cc3e00be2bbd3426b83
parent3fbf8fbc85143e713946ece3036b7303b8268f05 (diff)
Doc: Add description for mode argument of qmake's $$system()
Fixes: QTBUG-70926 Change-Id: Icfd13352cd64053c11502058188041ad16f6c287 Reviewed-by: Edward Welbourne <edward.welbourne@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Oswald Buddenhagen <oswald.buddenhagen@qt.io>
-rw-r--r--qmake/doc/src/qmake-manual.qdoc5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/qmake/doc/src/qmake-manual.qdoc b/qmake/doc/src/qmake-manual.qdoc
index 0ded8b574a..1a779a94b4 100644
--- a/qmake/doc/src/qmake-manual.qdoc
+++ b/qmake/doc/src/qmake-manual.qdoc
@@ -3038,6 +3038,7 @@
\snippet code/doc_src_qmake-manual.pro 59
+ \target qmake-cat
\section2 cat(filename[, mode])
Returns the contents of \c filename. You can specify the following options
@@ -3404,6 +3405,10 @@
\snippet code/doc_src_qmake-manual.pro 72
+ Like \l {qmake-cat}{$$cat()}, the \a mode argument takes \c blob, \c lines,
+ \c true, and \false as value. However, the legacy word splitting rules
+ (i.e. empty or \c true, and \c false) differ subtly.
+
If you pass \c stsvar, the command's exit status will be stored in that
variable. If the command crashes, the status will be -1, otherwise a
non-negative exit code of the command's choosing. Usually, comparing