From 95be8d3b12045b2408656dd852787b0c1053b5ef Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arnout Engelen <arnout@bzzt.net>
Date: Mon, 25 Nov 2019 18:00:05 +0100
Subject: Document builtins.placeholder

(cherry picked from commit 4e70652ee33641a6cfddbfb9b7d741515f1bf98a)
---
 doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml | 10 ++++++++++
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc')

diff --git a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
index f39b393bf719..394e1fc32c95 100644
--- a/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
+++ b/doc/manual/expressions/builtins.xml
@@ -1120,6 +1120,16 @@ Evaluates to <literal>[ "foo" ]</literal>.
 
   </varlistentry>
 
+  <varlistentry xml:id='builtin-placeholder'>
+    <term><function>builtins.placeholder</function>
+    <replaceable>output</replaceable></term>
+
+    <listitem><para>Return a placeholder string for the specified
+    <replaceable>output</replaceable> that will be substituted by the
+    corresponding output path at build time. Typical outputs would be
+    <literal>"out"</literal>, <literal>"bin"</literal> or
+    <literal>"dev"</literal>.</para></listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
 
   <varlistentry xml:id='builtin-readDir'>
     <term><function>builtins.readDir</function>
-- 
cgit 1.4.1