From: stevenknight <stevenknight@fdb21ef1-2011-0410-befe-b5e4ea1792b1>
Date: Mon, 30 May 2005 15:22:55 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add a brief description of env.subst() to the man page.  (Karol Pietrzak)
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Add a brief description of env.subst() to the man page.  (Karol Pietrzak)


git-svn-id: http://scons.tigris.org/svn/scons/trunk@1300 fdb21ef1-2011-0410-befe-b5e4ea1792b1
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diff --git a/doc/man/scons.1 b/doc/man/scons.1
index 52655bf9..5eae209a 100644
--- a/doc/man/scons.1
+++ b/doc/man/scons.1
@@ -4190,7 +4190,20 @@ env.SourceCode(['f1.c', 'f2.c'], env.SCCS())
 env.SourceCode('no_source.c', None)
 .EE
 '\"env.SourceCode('.', env.Subversion('file:///usr/local/Subversion'))
-'\"
+
+'\"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
+.TP
+.RI env.subst( string )
+Performs construction variable interpolation
+on the specified string argument.
+
+.ES
+print env.subst("The C compiler is: $CC")
+
+def compile(target, source, env):
+    sourceDir = env.subst("${SOURCE.srcdir}")
+.EE
+
 '\"""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""""
 '\".TP
 '\".RI Subversion( repository ", " module )
diff --git a/src/CHANGES.txt b/src/CHANGES.txt
index f1350af4..51fdbc3d 100644
--- a/src/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/src/CHANGES.txt
@@ -397,6 +397,8 @@ RELEASE 0.97 - XXX
 
   - Add $RPATH (-R) support to the Sun linker Tool (sunlink).
 
+  - Add a description of env.subst() to the man page.
+
   From Chris Prince:
 
   - Look in the right directory, not always the local directory, for a