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<para>
&SCons; construction environments have a &MergeFlags; method
that merges a dictionary of values into the construction environment.
&MergeFlags; treats each value in the dictionary
as a list of options such as one might pass to a command
(such as a compiler or linker).
&MergeFlags; will not duplicate an option
if it already exists in the construction environment variable.
</para>
<para>
&MergeFlags; tries to be intelligent about merging options.
When merging options to any variable
whose name ends in <varname>PATH</varname>,
&MergeFlags; keeps the leftmost occurrence of the option,
because in typical lists of directory paths,
the first occurrence "wins."
When merging options to any other variable name,
&MergeFlags; keeps the rightmost occurrence of the option,
because in a list of typical command-line options,
the last occurrence "wins."
</para>
<programlisting>
env = Environment()
env.Append(CCFLAGS = '-option -O3 -O1')
flags = { 'CCFLAGS' : '-whatever -O3' }
env.MergeFlags(flags)
print env['CCFLAGS']
</programlisting>
<screen>
% <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
['-option', '-O1', '-whatever', '-O3']
scons: `.' is up to date.
</screen>
<para>
Note that the default value for &cv-link-CCFLAGS;
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[TODO: for when we make CLVar public]
is a <varname>CLVar</varname>,
-->
is an internal &SCons; object
which automatically converts
the options we specified as a string into a list.
</para>
<programlisting>
env = Environment()
env.Append(CPPPATH = ['/include', '/usr/local/include', '/usr/include'])
flags = { 'CPPPATH' : ['/usr/opt/include', '/usr/local/include'] }
env.MergeFlags(flags)
print env['CPPPATH']
</programlisting>
<screen>
% <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
['/include', '/usr/local/include', '/usr/include', '/usr/opt/include']
scons: `.' is up to date.
</screen>
<para>
Note that the default value for &cv-link-CPPPATH;
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[TODO: for when we make CLVar public]
is a Python list, not a <varname>CLVar</varname>,
-->
is a normal Python list,
so we must specify its values as a list
in the dictionary we pass to the &MergeFlags; function.
</para>
<para>
If &MergeFlags; is passed anything other than a dictionary,
it calls the &ParseFlags; method to convert it into a dictionary.
</para>
<programlisting>
env = Environment()
env.Append(CCFLAGS = '-option -O3 -O1')
env.Append(CPPPATH = ['/include', '/usr/local/include', '/usr/include'])
env.MergeFlags('-whatever -I/usr/opt/include -O3 -I/usr/local/include')
print env['CCFLAGS']
print env['CPPPATH']
</programlisting>
<screen>
% <userinput>scons -Q</userinput>
['-option', '-O1', '-whatever', '-O3']
['/include', '/usr/local/include', '/usr/include', '/usr/opt/include']
scons: `.' is up to date.
</screen>
<para>
In the combined example above,
&ParseFlags; has sorted the options into their corresponding variables
and returned a dictionary for &MergeFlags; to apply
to the construction variables
in the specified construction environment.
</para>
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