Add support for database-specific profiles

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/odb/options.cli b/odb/options.cli
index b536d21..0b643ec 100644
--- a/odb/options.cli
+++ b/odb/options.cli
@@ -123,14 +123,23 @@ class options
   {
     "<name>",
     "Specify a profile that should be used during compilation. A
-     profile is an options file with the name constructed by appending
-     the \cb{.options} suffix to <name>. It is searched for in the
-     same set of directories as C++ headers included with the
-     \cb{#include <...>} directive (built-in paths plus those specified
-     with the \cb{-I} options). The options file is first searched for
-     in the directory itself and then in its \cb{odb/} subdirectory. For
-     the format of the options file refer to the \cb{--options-file} option
-     below. You can repeat this option to specify more than one profile."
+     profile is an options file. The ODB compiler first looks for
+     a database-specific version with the name constructed by appending
+     the \cb{-}\ci{database}\cb{.options} suffix to <name>, where
+     \ci{database} is the database name as specified with the
+     \cb{--database} option. If this file is not found, then the
+     ODB compiler looks for a database-independant version with the
+     name constructed by appending just the \cb{.options} suffix.
+
+     The profile options files are searched for in the same set of
+     directories as C++ headers included with the \cb{#include <...>}
+     directive (built-in paths plus those specified with the \cb{-I}
+     options). The options file is first searched for in the directory
+     itself and then in its \cb{odb/} subdirectory.
+
+     For the format of the options file refer to the \cb{--options-file}
+     option below. You can repeat this option to specify more than one
+     profile."
   };
 
   std::string --output-dir | -o