Ubuntu Manpage: sparkmake - generates SPARK index and metafiles

Provided by: spark_2012.0.deb-8_amd64

NAME

       sparkmake - generates SPARK index and metafiles

SYNOPSIS

       spark [OPTIONS] [ROOT_FILE]

DESCRIPTION

       The  SPARKMake  tool  automatically  generates  two  files  that can be used as arguments to the Examiner
       command line: The index file and the meta file. For more information please refer to  the  full  Examiner
       manual.

       This  manual  page  only  summarises the sparkmake command-line flags, please refer to the full SPARKMake
       manual for further information.

OPTIONS

These options do not quite follow the usual GNU command line syntax. All options start with a single dash
instead of the usual two and they can also be abbreviated, as long as the abbreviation is unique. For
example -expand can be abbreviated to -expa but not -exp as this clashes with -export_indent.

For a description of the regular expression syntax, please refer to the appropriate section below.

If ROOT_FILE is not given then we produce an index and metafile for all files in and under the current
directory.

-help Display command-line help.

-version
Display version information.

-directory=DIRNAME
Look in and under DIRNAME as well as the current working directory. This option can be specified
more than once; buy default we only look at the current working directory.

-include=REGEXP
Only include files if their full path matches the given regular expression.

-exclude=REGEXP
Exclude files if their full patch matches the given regular expression.

-duplicates_are_errors
Fail if duplicate units are found.

-annotation_character=CHAR
Select alternative annotation character. The default is '#'.

-language=L
This can be one of 83, 95 (the default) or 2005.

-index=FILE_SPEC, -noindexfile
The index file to generate, by default this is ROOT_FILE.idx.

-meta=FILE_SPEC, -nometafile
The metafile to generate, by default this is ROOT_FILE.smf.

-path_option=MODE
Produce 'relative' or 'full' pathnames. By default we produce full pathnames.

SPARKMAKE REGULAR EXPRESSION SYNTAX

       Please note that the regular expression syntax used by SPARKMake differs from both POSIX and Perl regular
       expressions.  Please  also  take  care  to appropriately escape anythign that your shell might replace or
       expand (such as * or ?). The characters '{' and '}' are not allowed to appear in any regular expression.

       reg_exp = term

       term = elmt | elmt elmt ... | * | ? | [char char ...] | [char - char]

       elmt = nchr | [nchr nchr ...] | [^ nchr nchr ...] | [nchr - nchr] | . | ( reg_exp )

       The * has special meaning; it matches any string of 0 or more characters. Note  that  this  differs  from
       POSIX regex where the equivalent would be '.*'.

       The special characters ? and . have the same meaning, they match any character. Thus, ? does not hold the
       same meaning it does in a POSIX regular expression.

       The [ab...] notation means the usual: match any character listed.

       The [a-f] notation means the usual: match any character in the given range.

       The [^a-f] notation means the usual: match any character not in the given range.

       char can be any character, including special characters. nchr can be any character except '\', '(',  ')',
       '[',  ']',  '.',  '*', '+', '?' or '^'. It is possible to specify such a special character by escaping it
       with a backslash.

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