waf(1)

NAME

waf - a Python-based build system

SYNOPSIS

waf [options]

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the waf commands.

Waf is a Python-based framework for configuring, compiling and installing applications. It derives from the concepts of other build tools such as SCons, Autotools, CMake or Ant.

OPTIONS

These programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the Info files.

-h, --help
Show summary of options.
--version
Show version of program.
-j JOBS, --jobs=JOBS
Amount of parallel jobs (1).
-k, --keep
Keep running happily on independent task groups.
-v, --verbose
Verbosity level -v -vv or -vvv [default: 0].
--nocache
Ignore the WAFCACHE (if set).
--zones=ZONES
Debugging zones (task_gen, deps, tasks, etc...).
-p, --progress
-p: progress bar; -pp: ide output.
--targets=COMPILE_TARGETS
Build given task generators, e.g. "target1, target2".
This man may be incomplete. Run "waf --help" for a complete list of options.

AUTHOR

waf was written by Thomas Nagy <tnagy1024@gmail.com>.

This manual page was written by Devid Antonio Filoni <d.filoni@ubuntu.com>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others).
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