[Scons-users] dependencies when you define environment variables

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 9:33 AM, TOM TANNER (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON)
<ttanner2 at bloomberg.net> wrote:

> That works with Command builders, but I can't see how to do it if I define a Builder and want to do something like

>

> builder = Builder(action = 'some_program_that_needs_an_environment_variable_set')

>

> especially if the environment variable value depends on the value of $SOURCE

>

> so I end up doing an emitter that records some program as a dependency


Well, your builder will also take env var overrides, so it's mostly
not any different from Command.  I think what you're saying is having
to manipulate env[ENV] before calling the builder each time is
annoying.  Is that right?

-- 
Gary