t.
>
> Why bother? It's not as if shell scripts ever bother to check for errors
> anyway.
Yeah, but with scons I can't even write a shell script to Mumble Grumble...
[which would be creating more software]
It's making me want to head down the pub and stay there.
[which doesn
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:43:58AM -0500, Walt Mankowski wrote:
[...]
> I suppose it's too much to ask for programs to return the *same* error
> code (ENOENT comes to mind) when a file doesn't exist.
Why bother? It's not as if shell scripts ever bother to check for errors
anyway.
sed -f 'This file does not exist'
> sed: couldn't open file This file does not exist: No such file or directory
> $ echo $?
> 4
>
>
> $ awk -f 'This file does not exist'
> awk: cannot open This file does not exist (No such file or directory)
> $ ech
Hi,
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 03:12:23PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> $ scons -f 'This file does not exist'
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
>
> scons: warning: Ignoring missing SConscript 'This file does not exist'
> File "/usr/bin/scons", l
x27;
sed: couldn't open file This file does not exist: No such file or directory
$ echo $?
4
$ awk -f 'This file does not exist'
awk: cannot open This file does not exist (No such file or directory)
$ echo $?
2
$ scons -f 'This file does not exist'
scons: Reading SConscri
On Wed, 19 Jan 2011 15:21:01 +, Nicholas Clark
wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:14:30PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
>
>> I'm not sure whose fault this hateful incompetence is - the authors of scons,
>> or the authors of the package's SConstruct file. But, fr
On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 03:14:30PM +, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> I'm not sure whose fault this hateful incompetence is - the authors of scons,
> or the authors of the package's SConstruct file. But, frankly, I don't care.
> What is the point of having the ability to hav
man scons says:
-h, --help
Print a local help message for this build, if one is defined in
the SConscript file(s), plus a line that describes the -H option
for command-line option help. If no local help message is
defined
