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| -rw-r--r-- | bpkg/common.cli | 11 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/bpkg/common.cli b/bpkg/common.cli index 587d32d..577b449 100644 --- a/bpkg/common.cli +++ b/bpkg/common.cli @@ -75,14 +75,17 @@ namespace bpkg \li|Even more detailed information.||" } - path --build = "b" + path --build { "<path>", "The build program to be used to build packages. This should be the path to the build2 \cb{b} executable. You can also specify additional options - that should be passed to the build program with \cb{--build-option}. If - the build program is not explicitly specified, then \cb{bpkg} will use - \cb{b} by default." + that should be passed to the build program with \cb{--build-option}. + + If the build program is not explicitly specified, then \cb{bpkg} will + by default use \cb{b} plus an executable suffix if one was specified + when building \cb{bpkg}. So, for example, if \cb{bpkg} name was set + to \cb{bpkg-1.0}, then it will look for \cb{b-1.0}." } strings --build-option |