manual: mention the "invalid parameter" case

This happens often enough and the error message is quite unhelpful.
Mention this error explicitly in the documentation.
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Ben Boeckel 2018-10-03 09:31:01 -04:00 committed by Ben Boeckel
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@ -880,7 +880,8 @@ quoting rules are deterimined by the called program, which on Windows
are usually provided by the C library. If you need shell
interpretation of the command (such as the use of `&&` to chain
multiple commands), make the command execute the Windows shell by
prefixing the command with `cmd /c`.
prefixing the command with `cmd /c`. Ninja may error with "invalid parameter"
which usually indicates that the command line length has been exceeded.
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