Fix the gn wrapper to be aware of the --root argument.

gn.py

Index: gn.py
diff --git a/gn.py b/gn.py
index 067f42e0f1ce62ab43eb5ed3fc55a7747d4e0689..d7bf338d435a1037a7c3a238a0854e2c7129f48a 100755
--- a/gn.py
+++ b/gn.py
@@ -27,9 +27,24 @@ def RunGN(sourceroot):
 
 
 def main(args):
+  for arg in sys.argv:
+    # TODO(dpranke): It would be nice if '--root foo' worked in addition

[brettw, 2014/03/27 21:04:20]

I disagree that this should be supported and I'd just remove this todo. Normal
Unix command line parsing is either a single "-" with a single letter option and
no equal sign (optional space separating them) or a double "--" with an equal
sign. Chrome's command-line parsing follows this, so I don't see why GN should
be any different.

+    # to '--root=foo', but that would be inconsistent with how GN parses
+    # command line args. If we fix that in GN, we should fix this wrapper, too.
+    if arg.startswith('--root='):
+      sourceroot = arg.replace('--root=', '')
+      dotfile_path = os.path.join(sourceroot, '.gn')
+      if not os.path.exists(dotfile_path):
+        print >> sys.stderr, 'gn.py: "%s" not found, exiting.' % dotfile_path
+        sys.exit(1)
+      return RunGN(sourceroot)
+
   sourceroot = gclient_utils.FindFileUpwards('.gn')
   if not sourceroot:
-    print >> sys.stderr, '.gn file not found in any parent of the current path.'
+    print >> sys.stderr, ('gn.py: No .gn file found in any parent of '
+                          'the current path.')
+    print >> sys.stderr, ('\nYou need to either be inside a checkout, '
+                          'or use --root to specify the checkout root.')
     sys.exit(1)
   return RunGN(sourceroot)