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authorTom Tanner <ttanner2@bloomberg.net>2013-10-07 09:00:12 (GMT)
committerTom Tanner <ttanner2@bloomberg.net>2013-10-07 09:00:12 (GMT)
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Fix names in several places and refer to the .PHONY command
in the documentation.
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-rw-r--r--src/engine/SCons/Script/Main.xml14
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Script/Main.xml b/src/engine/SCons/Script/Main.xml
index 99e066e..147e778 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Script/Main.xml
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Script/Main.xml
@@ -685,18 +685,22 @@ Multiple targets can be passed in to a single call to
</summary>
</scons_function>
-<scons_function name="Phony">
+<scons_function name="Pseudo">
<arguments>
(target, ...)
</arguments>
<summary>
<para>
-Marks each given
+This indicates that each given
<varname>target</varname>
-as phony, indicating it should not be created by the build rule. If a
-Phony target is created, this will cause an error.
+should not be created by the build rule, and if the target is created,
+an error will be generated. This is similar to the gnu make .PHONY
+target. However, in the vast majority of cases, an
+&f-Alias;
+is more appropriate.
+
Multiple targets can be passed in to a single call to
-&f-Phony;.
+&f-Pseudo;.
</para>
</summary>
</scons_function>