[Snowball-discuss] Compiler usage message

James Aylett james at tartarus.org
Mon Feb 12 12:54:58 GMT 2007


Confused myself just now with the snowball compiler - is there any
chance the usage statement could be a bit more unixy? Just needs
something like:

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Usage: {{argv[0]}} file
...
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instead of:

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options are: file ...
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When run on its own, it's fine, but as part of a build script,
incorrect invocation of the compiler makes it look like there's a
problem with the build system calling find(1), as that's in
preferential place in the current usage message...

J

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