Fix short-option processing

CHANGES.txt

@@ -12,6 +12,9 @@ NOTE: Python 3.6 support is deprecated and will be dropped in a future release.
 
 RELEASE  VERSION/DATE TO BE FILLED IN LATER
 
+  From Dillan Mills:
+    - Fix support for short options (`-x`).
+
   From Mats Wichmann:
     - PackageVariable now does what the documentation always said it does
       if the variable is used on the command line with one of the enabling

RELEASE.txt

@@ -43,6 +43,11 @@ FIXES
   it always produced True in this case).
 - Temporary files created by TempFileMunge() are now cleaned up on
   scons exit, instead of at the time they're used.  Fixes #4595.
+- AddOption now correctly adds short (single-character) options.
+  Previously an added short option would always report as unknown,
+  while long option names for the same option worked. Short options
+  that take a value require the user to specify the value immediately
+  following the option, with no spaces (e.g. -j5 and not -j 5).
 - Fix a problem with compilation_db component initialization - the
   entries for assembler files were not being set up correctly.
 

SCons/Script/SConsOptions.py

@@ -342,12 +342,13 @@ def error(self, msg: str) -> None:
     def _process_long_opt(self, rargs, values) -> None:
         """SCons-specific processing of long options.
 
-        This is copied directly from the normal
-        ``optparse._process_long_opt()`` method, except that, if configured
-        to do so, we catch the exception thrown when an unknown option
-        is encountered and just stick it back on the "leftover" arguments
-        for later (re-)processing. This is because we may see the option
-        definition later, while processing SConscript files.
+        This is copied directly from the normal Optparse
+        :meth:`~optparse.OptionParser._process_long_opt` method, except
+        that, if configured to do so, we catch the exception thrown
+        when an unknown option is encountered and just stick it back
+        on the "leftover" arguments for later (re-)processing. This is
+        because we may see the option definition later, while processing
+        SConscript files.
         """
         arg = rargs.pop(0)
 
@@ -414,6 +415,66 @@ def _process_long_opt(self, rargs, values) -> None:
 
         option.process(opt, value, values, self)
 
+
+    def _process_short_opts(self, rargs, values) -> None:
+        """SCons-specific processing of short options.
+
+        This is copied directly from the normal Optparse
+        :meth:`~optparse.OptionParser._process_short_opts` method, except
+        that, if configured to do so, we catch the exception thrown
+        when an unknown option is encountered and just stick it back
+        on the "leftover" arguments for later (re-)processing. This is
+        because we may see the option definition later, while processing
+        SConscript files.
+        """
+        arg = rargs.pop(0)
+        stop = False
+        i = 1
+        for ch in arg[1:]:
+            opt = "-" + ch
+            option = self._short_opt.get(opt)
+            i += 1                      # we have consumed a character
+
+            try:
+                if not option:
+                    raise optparse.BadOptionError(opt)
+            except optparse.BadOptionError:
+                # SCons addition:  if requested, add unknown options to
+                # the "leftover arguments" list for later processing.
+                if self.preserve_unknown_options:
+                    self.largs.append(arg)
+                    return
+                raise
+
+            if option.takes_value():
+                # Any characters left in arg?  Pretend they're the
+                # next arg, and stop consuming characters of arg.
+                if i < len(arg):
+                    rargs.insert(0, arg[i:])
+                    stop = True
+
+                nargs = option.nargs
+                if len(rargs) < nargs:
+                    if nargs == 1:
+                        self.error(_("%s option requires an argument") % opt)
+                    else:
+                        self.error(_("%s option requires %d arguments")
+                                   % (opt, nargs))
+                elif nargs == 1:
+                    value = rargs.pop(0)
+                else:
+                    value = tuple(rargs[0:nargs])
+                    del rargs[0:nargs]
+
+            else:                       # option doesn't take a value
+                value = None
+
+            option.process(opt, value, values, self)
+
+            if stop:
+                break
+
+
     def reparse_local_options(self) -> None:
         """Re-parse the leftover command-line options.
 

test/AddOption/basic.py

@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
 DefaultEnvironment(tools=[])
 env = Environment(tools=[])
 AddOption(
-    '--force',
+    '-F', '--force',
     action="store_true",
     help='force installation (overwrite any existing files)',
 )
@@ -74,6 +74,7 @@
 
 test.run('-Q -q .', stdout="None\nNone\n")
 test.run('-Q -q . --force', stdout="True\nNone\n")
+test.run('-Q -q . -F', stdout="True\nNone\n")
 test.run('-Q -q . --prefix=/home/foo', stdout="None\n/home/foo\n")
 test.run('-Q -q . -- --prefix=/home/foo --force', status=1, stdout="None\nNone\n")
 # check that SetOption works on prefix...

test/SCONSFLAGS.py

@@ -62,15 +62,15 @@
 test.must_not_contain_any_line(test.stdout(), ['Help text.'])
 test.must_contain_all_lines(test.stdout(), ['-H, --help-options'])
 
-os.environ['SCONSFLAGS'] = '-Z'
-
 expect = r"""usage: scons [OPTIONS] [VARIABLES] [TARGETS]
 
 SCons Error: no such option: -Z
 """
 
-test.run(arguments = "-H", status = 2,
-         stderr = expect, match=TestSCons.match_exact)
+test.run(arguments="-Z", status=2, stderr=expect, match=TestSCons.match_exact)
+
+os.environ['SCONSFLAGS'] = '-Z'
+test.run(status=2, stderr=expect, match=TestSCons.match_exact)
 
 test.pass_test()