[Scons-users] cache + sideeffect not working as expected ?

[Julien Pommier]

Hi,

I'm a bit puzzled by the behaviour of the cache when sideeffects are 
specified. See this very simple example:

import os
CacheDir(os.getenv('HOME')+"/scons_cache")
env=Environment()

env.Command(['foo'], [], 'touch foo && touch bar')
env.SideEffect('bar', 'foo')
Default('foo')


> scons foo && ls

SConstruct  bar  foo

> rm foo bar && scons bar && ls

scons: Building targets ...
Retrieved `foo' from cache
SConstruct  foo


Only foo was retrieved from the cache, bar is not retrieved or rebuilt 
while I did ask explicitely for it. Is there something I did not 
understand about the meaning of the SideEffect function, or is this a 
bug in scons ?