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## New kwarg `console` for `custom_target()`
This keyword argument conflicts with `capture`, and is meant for commands
that are resource-intensive and take a long time to finish. With the Ninja
backend, setting this will add this target to [Ninja's `console`
This keyword argument conflicts with `capture`, and is meant for
commands that are resource-intensive and take a long time to
finish. With the Ninja backend, setting this will add this target to
[Ninja's `console`
pool](https://ninja-build.org/manual.html#_the_literal_console_literal_pool),
which has special properties such as not buffering stdout and serializing all
targets in this pool.
which has special properties such as not buffering stdout and
serializing all targets in this pool.
The primary use-case for this is to be able to run external package managers
such as `cargo` to produce build artifacts. Without setting this, the user does
not receive any feedback about what the package manager is doing, which can
take a very long time to download and build packages.
The primary use-case for this is to be able to run external commands
that take a long time to exeute. Without setting this, the user does
not receive any feedback about what the program is doing.