Re: Hint for users of AdaDep (-m, -o, -r and -w options)

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 05/06/2012 08:42, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57) a écrit :
> Le Tue, 05 Jun 2012 08:33:54 +0200, Yannick Duchêne (Hibou57)
> <yannick_duchene@yahoo.fr> a écrit:
> 
>> Hi happy AdaDep users,
>>
>> Don't know if this was already noticed somewhere, but I've just
>> noticed some care must be taken when one use the “-w“ option in a
>> specific circumstance: this option direct the adadep command to
>> overwrite the output file specified by the “-o <file>” option. If you
>> do so *with* the “-r” option *without* the “-m” option, you will a get
>> an output file looking like truncated. The output file will be
>> overwritten for each processed units spec' and body. When the “-m”
>> option is specified, this undesired behavior is not exposed.
>>
>> Conclusion: if you use the options “-o” “-r” and “-w” all together,
>> always serve it with an “-m” option (this will also prevent you from
>> erroneously suspecting a bug in adadep ;-) ).
> 
I think I overlooked this issue. This is not the goal of the -m option.
The intended behaviour is that without -m you get a listing for each
unit, and with -m all the listings are merged. I noticed also that -m is
poorly documented...

I'll try to find the time to fix that (possibly in the plane between
Paris and Stockholm!)

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