scripts: print usage in argparse-using scripts when a command-line error occurs

For scripts that use Python's standard argparse module to parse
command-line arguments, create a subclass which will show the usage
the usage information when a command-line parsing error occurs. The most
common case would be when the script is run with no arguments; at least
then the user immediately gets to see what arguments they might need to
pass instead of just an error message.

Signed-off-by: Paul Eggleton <paul.eggleton@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>

2 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/lib/argparse_oe.py b/scripts/lib/argparse_oe.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..c2fee6de05
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/lib/argparse_oe.py
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+import sys
+import argparse
+
+class ArgumentParser(argparse.ArgumentParser):
+    """Our own version of argparse's ArgumentParser"""
+
+    def error(self, message):
+        sys.stderr.write('ERROR: %s\n' % message)
+        self.print_help()
+        sys.exit(2)
+
diff --git a/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py b/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py
index 3366882635..4dd7ef2a0d 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/scriptutils.py
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ import sys
 import os
 import logging
 import glob
+import argparse
 
 def logger_create(name):
     logger = logging.getLogger(name)