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authorJames E.H. Turner <jturner@gemini.edu>2016-08-31 14:12:13 -0400
committerJames E.H. Turner <jturner@gemini.edu>2016-08-31 14:12:13 -0400
commit3742a0372cad8fdfda247a89a2fc168a66162201 (patch)
treea479a860d29a39a7f21beb080150835c278f2fd5
parent021fde88ec45b8bdd31b117e9986c8561d44df90 (diff)
downloadastroconda-iraf-helpers-3742a0372cad8fdfda247a89a2fc168a66162201.tar.gz
Some remaining name & comment updates for the AstroConda version.
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/make_helpdb15
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/make_helpdb b/scripts/make_helpdb
index d22612f..e0956f0 100755
--- a/scripts/make_helpdb
+++ b/scripts/make_helpdb
@@ -1,12 +1,11 @@
#!/usr/bin/env python
#
-# Usage: ur-genhelp pkgname
+# Make the help & apropos databases for an IRAF package (adapted from Ureka).
+#
+# Usage: make_helpdb pkgname
# - The package should already have been defined in extern.pkg, otherwise
# IRAF can't find it.
#
-# Instead of trying to get a list of IRAF package definitions for the
-# current variant and normalize them all, we now call this script (from
-# build.iraf_package) to update one specified package at a time.
# Although the generated database files contain some hard-wired paths, in
# practice the databases can be moved and still work without modification,
# so they only need generating once, at compile time.
@@ -99,7 +98,7 @@ def mkapropos(pkgname):
iraf.mkapropos(pkglist=pkgname, helpdir='lib/root.hd', \
aproposdb=pkgname+'$lib/apropos.db', verbose=0)
except irafglobals.IrafError:
- sys.exit('ur-genhelp: error running mkapropos for '+pkgname)
+ sys.exit('make_helpdb: error running mkapropos for '+pkgname)
# Use IRAF to compile the help database for this package:
@@ -112,7 +111,7 @@ def mkhelpdb(pkgname) :
iraf.mkhelpdb(helpdir = pkgname+'$lib/root.hd',
helpdb = pkgname + '$lib/helpdb.mip', verbose=0)
except irafglobals.IrafError:
- sys.exit('ur-genhelp: error running mkhelpdb for '+pkgname)
+ sys.exit('make_helpdb: error running mkhelpdb for '+pkgname)
@@ -120,13 +119,13 @@ def mkhelpdb(pkgname) :
try:
pkgname, pkgdir = pkgname_to_dir(pkgname)
except:
- sys.exit('ur-genhelp: error: path to package %s not found/defined' \
+ sys.exit('make_helpdb: error: path to package %s not found/defined' \
% pkgname)
pkgdir = pkgdir + '/lib'
if not os.access(pkgdir, os.W_OK):
- sys.exit('ur-genhelp: error: path %s not found or isn\'t writeable' \
+ sys.exit('make_helpdb: error: path %s not found or isn\'t writeable' \
% pkgdir)