From ba4425ab5227fd9597fccd368bffff6bf1032149 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:25:53 +0200
Subject: Imported Upstream version 2.1.0

---
 doc/user/scanners.xml | 17 ++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/user/scanners.xml')

diff --git a/doc/user/scanners.xml b/doc/user/scanners.xml
index 2aba7d2..7862265 100644
--- a/doc/user/scanners.xml
+++ b/doc/user/scanners.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!--
 
-  Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 The SCons Foundation
+  Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 The SCons Foundation
 
   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
   a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
@@ -171,9 +171,20 @@ over the file scanning rather than being called for each input line:
       
       def kfile_scan(node, env, path, arg):
           contents = node.get_text_contents()
-          return include_re.findall(contents)
+          return env.File(include_re.findall(contents))
     </programlisting>
 
+    <para>
+    
+      It is important to note that you
+      have to return a list of File nodes from the scanner function, simple
+      strings for the file names won't do. As in the examples we are showing here,
+      you can use the &File;
+      function of your current Environment in order to create nodes on the fly from
+      a sequence of file names with relative paths.
+      
+    </para>
+
     <para>
 
       The scanner function must
@@ -282,7 +293,7 @@ over the file scanning rather than being called for each input line:
         def kfile_scan(node, env, path):
             contents = node.get_text_contents()
             includes = include_re.findall(contents)
-            return includes
+            return env.File(includes)
 
         kscan = Scanner(function = kfile_scan,
                         skeys = ['.k'])
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