From e20c9557371eacec533588d33b4bebd543ba178f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?J=C3=B6rg=20Frings-F=C3=BCrst?= <debian@jff-webhosting.net>
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2015 06:58:13 +0100
Subject: Imported Upstream version 2.4.1

---
 doc/user/output.xml | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 22 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/user/output.xml')

diff --git a/doc/user/output.xml b/doc/user/output.xml
index 3af96b4..5230e5c 100644
--- a/doc/user/output.xml
+++ b/doc/user/output.xml
@@ -83,6 +83,21 @@ Type: 'scons program' to build the production program,
 
     <para>
 
+    Optionally, one can specify the append flag:
+
+    </para>
+
+    <scons_example name="output_ex1_a">
+       <file name="SConstruct" printme="1">
+Help("""
+Type: 'scons program' to build the production program,
+      'scons debug' to build the debug version.
+""", append=True)
+       </file>
+    </scons_example>
+
+    <para>
+
     (Note the above use of the Python triple-quote syntax,
     which comes in very handy for
     specifying multi-line strings like help text.)
@@ -120,6 +135,13 @@ Type: 'scons program' to build the production program,
 
     <para>
 
+    When used with &AddOption; Help("text", append=False) will clobber any help output associated with AddOption().
+    To preserve the help output from AddOption(), set append=True.
+
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+
     Another use would be to make the help text conditional
     on some variable.
     For example, suppose you only want to display
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