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authorJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2014-07-26 16:31:27 +0200
committerJörg Frings-Fürst <debian@jff-webhosting.net>2014-07-26 16:31:27 +0200
commit78989ebb445af2c6462ae2bf05ffd588d76610e4 (patch)
tree931f0ae1302ff7d45e41a1aa4b6dbc96be174744 /doc/generated/builders.gen
parent9d8eae9f5bf53a4a80e29d7a3a1d2c7d7197688a (diff)
Imported Upstream version 2.3.2upstream/2.3.2
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/generated/builders.gen')
-rw-r--r--doc/generated/builders.gen27
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/doc/generated/builders.gen b/doc/generated/builders.gen
index 41239d4..3d534b0 100644
--- a/doc/generated/builders.gen
+++ b/doc/generated/builders.gen
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
%variables-mod;
]>
-<variablelist xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0/scons.xsd scons.xsd">
+<variablelist xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0 http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0/scons.xsd">
<varlistentry id="b-CFile">
<term>
<function>CFile()</function>
@@ -2137,11 +2137,10 @@ below, for more information.
</term>
<listitem>
<para xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">
-The <function xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">Substfile</function> builder generates a single text file
-by concatenating the source files.
-Nested lists of sources are flattened.
-<envar xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">$LINESEPARATOR</envar> is used to separate the source files;
-see the description of <function xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">Textfile</function> for details.
+The <function xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">Substfile</function> builder creates a single text file from another file or set of
+files by concatenating them with <envar xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">$LINESEPARATOR</envar> and replacing text
+using the <envar xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">$SUBST_DICT</envar> construction variable. Nested lists of source files
+are flattened. See also <function xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">Textfile</function>.
</para>
<para xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">
@@ -2159,20 +2158,18 @@ are automatically added to the target if they are not already present.
<para xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">
If a construction variable named <envar xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">$SUBST_DICT</envar> is present,
it may be either a Python dictionary or a sequence of (key,value) tuples.
-If the former,
-the dictionary is converted into a list of tuples in an arbitrary order,
+If it is a dictionary it is converted into a list of tuples in an arbitrary order,
so if one key is a prefix of another key
or if one substitution could be further expanded by another subsitition,
-it is unpredictible whether the expansion will occur.
+it is unpredictable whether the expansion will occur.
</para>
<para xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">
-Any occurences in the source of a key
+Any occurrences of a key in the source
are replaced by the corresponding value,
which may be a Python callable function or a string.
-If a value is a function,
-it is first called (with no arguments) to produce a string.
-The string is <emphasis>subst</emphasis>-expanded
+If the value is a callable, it is called with no arguments to get a string.
+Strings are <emphasis>subst</emphasis>-expanded
and the result replaces the key.
</para>
@@ -2278,7 +2275,7 @@ env.Tar('foo')
<para xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">
The <function xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">Textfile</function> builder generates a single text file.
The source strings constitute the lines;
-nested lists of sources are flattened.
+nested lists of sources are flattened.
<envar xmlns="http://www.scons.org/dbxsd/v1.0">$LINESEPARATOR</envar> is used to separate the strings.
</para>
@@ -2306,7 +2303,7 @@ env.Textfile(target = 'bar',
LINESEPARATOR='|*')
# nested lists are flattened automatically
-env.Textfile(target = 'blob',
+env.Textfile(target = 'blob',
source = ['lalala', ['Goethe', 42 'Schiller'], 'tanteratei'])
# files may be used as input by wraping them in File()