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authorJukka Laurila <jlaurila@google.com>2018-03-05 22:25:27 +0100
committerJussi Pakkanen <jpakkane@gmail.com>2018-03-06 14:02:55 +0200
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Make "meson help" and "meson help <subcommand>" do the expected thing.
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diff --git a/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py b/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py
index e354cce..69b4e31 100644
--- a/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py
+++ b/mesonbuild/mesonmain.py
@@ -284,6 +284,13 @@ def run(original_args, mainfile=None):
# First check if we want to run a subcommand.
cmd_name = args[0]
remaining_args = args[1:]
+ # "help" is a special case: Since printing of the help may be
+ # delegated to a subcommand, we edit cmd_name before executing
+ # the rest of the logic here.
+ if cmd_name == 'help':
+ remaining_args += ['--help']
+ args = remaining_args
+ cmd_name = args[0]
if cmd_name == 'test':
return mtest.run(remaining_args)
elif cmd_name == 'setup':