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authorPaul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>2015-12-22 17:02:54 +1300
committerRichard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>2015-12-28 09:25:12 +0000
commit8e0a84c90175cc2fedff0272abda073ee270b876 (patch)
treecc5e7a7778ffe12e0376cb7c06f1c1d69b79dfe9 /scripts/devtool
parent548d4332e827cc9ae13fd57517a42fa0f139880f (diff)
downloadpoky-8e0a84c90175cc2fedff0272abda073ee270b876.tar.gz
scripts: print usage in argparse-using scripts when a command-line error occurs
For scripts that use Python's standard argparse module to parse command-line arguments, create a subclass which will show the usage the usage information when a command-line parsing error occurs. The most common case would be when the script is run with no arguments; at least then the user immediately gets to see what arguments they might need to pass instead of just an error message. (From OE-Core rev: d62fe7c9bc2df6a4464440a3cae0539074bf99aa) Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/devtool')
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/devtool b/scripts/devtool
index 9d3287c6d3..955495ea33 100755
--- a/scripts/devtool
+++ b/scripts/devtool
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ lib_path = scripts_path + '/lib'
37sys.path = sys.path + [lib_path] 37sys.path = sys.path + [lib_path]
38from devtool import DevtoolError, setup_tinfoil 38from devtool import DevtoolError, setup_tinfoil
39import scriptutils 39import scriptutils
40import argparse_oe
40logger = scriptutils.logger_create('devtool') 41logger = scriptutils.logger_create('devtool')
41 42
42plugins = [] 43plugins = []
@@ -185,9 +186,9 @@ def main():
185 break 186 break
186 pth = os.path.dirname(pth) 187 pth = os.path.dirname(pth)
187 188
188 parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description="OpenEmbedded development tool", 189 parser = argparse_oe.ArgumentParser(description="OpenEmbedded development tool",
189 add_help=False, 190 add_help=False,
190 epilog="Use %(prog)s <subcommand> --help to get help on a specific command") 191 epilog="Use %(prog)s <subcommand> --help to get help on a specific command")
191 parser.add_argument('--basepath', help='Base directory of SDK / build directory') 192 parser.add_argument('--basepath', help='Base directory of SDK / build directory')
192 parser.add_argument('--bbpath', help='Explicitly specify the BBPATH, rather than getting it from the metadata') 193 parser.add_argument('--bbpath', help='Explicitly specify the BBPATH, rather than getting it from the metadata')
193 parser.add_argument('-d', '--debug', help='Enable debug output', action='store_true') 194 parser.add_argument('-d', '--debug', help='Enable debug output', action='store_true')