diff -r 35c8da2a4594 wscript
--- a/wscript	Wed Jul 01 12:43:23 2009 +0200
+++ b/wscript	Wed Jul 01 17:19:22 2009 +0200
@@ -117,6 +117,9 @@
                    action="store_true", default=False,
                    dest='doxygen')
 
+    opt.add_option('--build',
+                   help=('Locally build a program; argument must be a program name.'),
+                   type="string", default='', dest='buildprogram')
     opt.add_option('--run',
                    help=('Run a locally built program; argument can be a program name,'
                          ' or a command starting with the program name.'),
@@ -511,8 +514,11 @@
     bld.add_subdirs('bindings/python')
 
     if Options.options.run:
+      Options.options.buildprogram = Options.options.run
+
+    if Options.options.buildprogram:
         # Check that the requested program name is valid
-        program_name, dummy_program_argv = wutils.get_run_program(Options.options.run, wutils.get_command_template(env))
+        program_name, dummy_program_argv = wutils.get_run_program(Options.options.buildprogram, wutils.get_command_template(env))
 
         # When --run'ing a program, tell WAF to only build that program,
         # nothing more; this greatly speeds up compilation when all you