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| author | Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com> | 2003-07-02 03:24:07 (GMT) |
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| committer | Steven Knight <knight@baldmt.com> | 2003-07-02 03:24:07 (GMT) |
| commit | f7eddbc1949e72d148a877a8f48c615cdb9487d7 (patch) | |
| tree | 8c13109d61bba3558b613642d3c1e7f97b2b216b /src/engine/SCons/Script | |
| parent | 007b42c9a8eb58d83c7cc95d504384295e8f3a1a (diff) | |
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Tighten up the help text.
Diffstat (limited to 'src/engine/SCons/Script')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/engine/SCons/Script/__init__.py | 27 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Script/__init__.py b/src/engine/SCons/Script/__init__.py index 29f8e11..2f04d41 100644 --- a/src/engine/SCons/Script/__init__.py +++ b/src/engine/SCons/Script/__init__.py @@ -431,7 +431,8 @@ class OptParser(OptionParser): help="Remove specified targets and dependencies.") self.add_option('-C', '--directory', type="string", action = "append", - help="Change to DIRECTORY before doing anything.") + metavar="DIR", + help="Change to DIR before doing anything.") self.add_option('--cache-disable', '--no-cache', action="store_true", dest='cache_disable', default=0, @@ -453,7 +454,7 @@ class OptParser(OptionParser): help = "Print file dependency information.") self.add_option('-D', action="store_const", const=2, dest="climb_up", - help="Search up directory tree for SConstruct, " + help="Search up directory tree for SConstruct, " "build all Default() targets.") def opt_debug(option, opt, value, parser): @@ -498,8 +499,8 @@ class OptParser(OptionParser): help="Ignore errors from build actions.") self.add_option('-I', '--include-dir', action="append", - dest='include_dir', metavar="DIRECTORY", - help="Search DIRECTORY for imported Python modules.") + dest='include_dir', metavar="DIR", + help="Search DIR for imported Python modules.") self.add_option('--implicit-cache', action="store_true", dest='implicit_cache', @@ -507,10 +508,10 @@ class OptParser(OptionParser): self.add_option('--implicit-deps-changed', action="store_true", default=0, dest='implicit_deps_changed', - help="Ignore the cached implicit deps.") + help="Ignore cached implicit dependencies.") self.add_option('--implicit-deps-unchanged', action="store_true", default=0, dest='implicit_deps_unchanged', - help="Ignore changes in implicit deps.") + help="Ignore changes in implicit dependencies.") def opt_j(option, opt, value, parser): value = int(value) @@ -524,9 +525,8 @@ class OptParser(OptionParser): help="Keep going when a target can't be made.") self.add_option('--max-drift', type="int", action="store", - dest='max_drift', - help="Set the maximum system clock drift to be" - " MAX_DRIFT seconds.") + dest='max_drift', metavar="N", + help="Set maximum system clock drift to N seconds.") self.add_option('-n', '--no-exec', '--just-print', '--dry-run', '--recon', action="store_true", dest='noexec', @@ -541,14 +541,15 @@ class OptParser(OptionParser): sys.exit(exit_status) self.add_option('--profile', nargs=1, action="callback", callback=opt_profile, type="string", dest="profile", - help="Profile SCons and put results in PROFILE.") + metavar="FILE", + help="Profile SCons and put results in FILE.") self.add_option('-q', '--question', action="store_true", default=0, help="Don't build; exit status says if up to date.") self.add_option('-Q', dest='no_progress', action="store_true", default=0, - help="Don't print SCons progress messages.") + help="Suppress \"Reading/Building\" progress messages.") self.add_option('--random', dest="random", action="store_true", default=0, help="Build dependencies in random order.") @@ -558,11 +559,11 @@ class OptParser(OptionParser): self.add_option('-u', '--up', '--search-up', action="store_const", dest="climb_up", default=0, const=1, - help="Search up directory tree for SConstruct, " + help="Search up directory tree for SConstruct, " "build targets at or below current directory.") self.add_option('-U', action="store_const", dest="climb_up", default=0, const=3, - help="Search up directory tree for SConstruct, " + help="Search up directory tree for SConstruct, " "build Default() targets from local SConscript.") self.add_option("-v", "--version", |