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diff --git a/tests/examples/executable_name/README.rst b/tests/examples/executable_name/README.rst new file mode 100644 index 00000000..4db0db04 --- /dev/null +++ b/tests/examples/executable_name/README.rst @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +Executable name +=============== + +.. _go_binary: /docs/go/core/rules.md#go_binary + +The filename of the executable produced by a go_binary_ rule is unpredictale, the full path includes +the compilation mode amongst other things, and the rules offer no backwards compatibility guarantees +about the filename. +For the simple case where you know exactly what you want the output filename to be, you can use a +genrule to copy it to a well known place. |