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authorGreg Noel <GregNoel@tigris.org>2009-04-12 22:52:09 (GMT)
committerGreg Noel <GregNoel@tigris.org>2009-04-12 22:52:09 (GMT)
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Document that filename that has a dot as the first character must be matched explicitly in a Glob() pattern
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diff --git a/doc/man/scons.1 b/doc/man/scons.1
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@@ -4184,6 +4184,8 @@ uses Unix shell style metacharacters for matching:
.EE
.IP
+If the first character of a filename is a dot,
+it must be matched explicitly.
Character matches do
.I not
span directory separators.
@@ -4255,10 +4257,11 @@ not the original
.B SConscript
directory.)
-Example:
+Examples:
.ES
Program('foo', Glob('*.c'))
+Zip('/tmp/everything', Glob('.??*') + Glob('*'))
.EE
'\"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""