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6 sconsign - print SCons .sconsign file information
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9 sconsign [ options... ] file [ ... ]
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12 The sconsign command displays the contents of one or more .sconsign
13 files specified by the user.
14 By default, sconsign dumps the entire contents of the specified
16 file(s). Each entry is printed in the following format:
17 file: signature timestamp length
19 implicit_dependency_1: signature timestamp length
20 implicit_dependency_2: signature timestamp length
21 action_signature [action string]
22 None is printed in place of any missing timestamp, bsig, or csig values
24 for any entry or any of its dependencies. If the entry has no implicit
25 dependencies, or no build action, the lines are simply omitted.
26 By default, sconsign assumes that any file arguments that end with a
28 .dbm suffix contains signature entries for more than one directory
29 (that is, was specified by the SConsignFile () function). Any file
30 argument that does not end in .dbm is assumed to be a traditional
31 .sconsign file containing the signature entries for a single directory.
32 An explicit format may be specified using the -f or --file= options.
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36 Various options control what information is printed and the format:
37 -a, --act, --action
40 Prints the build action information for all entries or the spec‐
41 ified entries.
42 -c, --csig
45 Prints the content signature (csig) information for all entries
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47 -d DIRECTORY, --dir=DIRECTORY
50 When the signatures are being read from a .dbm file, or the -f
51 dbm or --format=dbm options are used, prints information about
52 only the signatures for entries in the specified DIRECTORY.
53 -e ENTRY, --entry=ENTRY
56 Prints information about only the specified ENTRY. Multiple -e
57 options may be used, in which case information about each ENTRY
58 is printed in the order in which the options are specified on
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60 -f FORMAT, --format=FORMAT
63 The file(s) to be printed are in the specified FORMAT. Legal
64 values are dbm (the DBM format used when the SConsignFile()
65 function is used) or sconsign (the default format used for an
66 individual .sconsign file in each directory).
67 -h, --help
70 Prints a help message and exits.
71 -i, --implicit
74 Prints the list of cached implicit dependencies for all entries
75 or the the specified entries.
76 --raw Prints a pretty-printed representation of the raw Python dictio‐
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80 the entry itself or its implicit dependencies). An entry's
81 build action is still printed in its usual format.
82 -r, --readable
85 Prints timestamps in a human-readable string, enclosed in single
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87 -t, --timestamp
90 Prints the timestamp information for all entries or the speci‐
91 fied entries.
92 -v, --verbose
95 Prints labels identifying each field being printed.
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99 SCONS_LIB_DIR
100 Specifies the directory that contains the SCons Python module
101 directory (e.g. /home/aroach/scons-src-0.01/src/engine). on the
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106 scons, scons User Manual, scons Design Document, scons source code.
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110 Steven Knight <knight at baldmt dot com>
111 September 2011 SCONSIGN(1)