From 27132f89fa411aae71b931138561b00549a163f8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: William Deegan Date: Wed, 17 May 2023 18:57:26 -0700 Subject: Minor update to scanner description --- doc/user/scanners.xml | 11 +++++++---- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/user/scanners.xml b/doc/user/scanners.xml index 9a0a1d3..6538987 100644 --- a/doc/user/scanners.xml +++ b/doc/user/scanners.xml @@ -149,10 +149,13 @@ over the file scanning rather than being called for each input line: &SCons; has built-in &Scanners; that know how to look in C/C++, Fortran, D, IDL, LaTeX, Python and SWIG source files for information about - other files that targets built from those files depend on - - for example, in the case of files that use the C preprocessor, - the .h files that are specified - using #include lines in the source. + other files that targets built from those files depend on. + + For example, if you have a file format which uses #include + to specify files which should be included into the source file + when it is processed, you can use an existing scanner already + included in &SCons;. + You can use the same mechanisms that &SCons; uses to create its built-in Scanners to write Scanners of your own for file types that &SCons; does not know how to scan "out of the box." -- cgit v0.12