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| author | Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com> | 2003-01-09 06:34:55 (GMT) |
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| committer | Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com> | 2003-01-09 06:34:55 (GMT) |
| commit | 70cbd50755323e60514c354bd0b8166990a6dae7 (patch) | |
| tree | 4fdcabd7ddee3da00585102b42f3bd823de9ee6d /doc | |
| parent | 270b93aea9b0543094f95bdb22c914e1189c31d1 (diff) | |
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Better initial explanation of SConscript files; fix a misformatted table in the StaticObject explanation.
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diff --git a/doc/man/scons.1 b/doc/man/scons.1 index a2f265f..3d5691e 100644 --- a/doc/man/scons.1 +++ b/doc/man/scons.1 @@ -71,10 +71,25 @@ in the local directory, will internally change its working directory (chdir) to the directory containing the file. +The +.I SConstruct +file can specify subsidiary +configuration files using the +.B SConscript() +function. +By convention, +these subsidiary files are named +.IR SConscript , +although any name may be used. +(Because of this naming convention, +the term "SConscript files" +is sometimes used to refer +generically to all +.B scons +configuration files, +regardless of actual file name.) + The configuration files -(generically referred to as -.I SConscript -files) specify the target files to be built, and (optionally) the rules to build those targets. Reasonable default rules exist for building common software components (executable @@ -913,6 +928,7 @@ function: .ES bar_obj = env.StaticObject('bar.c', CCFLAGS='-DBAR') print "The path to bar_obj is:", str(bar_obj) +.EE .B scons provides the following builders: |