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| author | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2017-03-02 11:23:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Boris Kolpackov <boris@codesynthesis.com> | 2017-03-02 14:03:55 +0200 |
| commit | 705e806eb94b743ba962080c4b397d9b32af4a50 (patch) | |
| tree | 2fa0feb6d67f8ff96680a8b3c782140b7748ea03 /build2/b-options.cxx | |
| parent | b37f1aa6398065be806e6605a023189685669885 (diff) | |
Options cleanup
Diffstat (limited to 'build2/b-options.cxx')
| -rw-r--r-- | build2/b-options.cxx | 12 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/build2/b-options.cxx b/build2/b-options.cxx index 1118eb4..d89adcf 100644 --- a/build2/b-options.cxx +++ b/build2/b-options.cxx @@ -695,8 +695,9 @@ namespace build2 << " includes both the number of active threads inside the" << ::std::endl << " build system as well as the number of external commands" << ::std::endl << " (compilers, linkers, etc) started but not yet finished. If" << ::std::endl - << " this option is not specified, then the number of available" << ::std::endl - << " hardware threads is used." << ::std::endl; + << " this option is not specified or specified with the 0\033[0m" << ::std::endl + << " value, then the number of available hardware threads is" << ::std::endl + << " used." << ::std::endl; os << std::endl << "\033[1m--max-jobs\033[0m|\033[1m-J\033[0m \033[4mnum\033[0m Maximum number of jobs (threads) to create. The default is" << ::std::endl @@ -706,8 +707,11 @@ namespace build2 os << std::endl << "\033[1m--serial-stop\033[0m|\033[1m-s\033[0m Run serially and stop at the first error. This mode is" << ::std::endl - << " useful to investigate build failured that are caused by" << ::std::endl - << " build system errors rather than compilation errors." << ::std::endl; + << " useful to investigate build failures that are caused by" << ::std::endl + << " build system errors rather than compilation errors. Note" << ::std::endl + << " that if you don't want to keep going but still want" << ::std::endl + << " parallel execution, add --jobs|-j\033[0m (for example -j 0\033[0m for" << ::std::endl + << " default concurrency)." << ::std::endl; os << std::endl << "\033[1m--no-column\033[0m Don't print column numbers in diagnostics." << ::std::endl; |