[Scons-users] Does SCons has an automatic rebuild option ?

[Jean-Baptiste Lab]

Hi Julien

On 31 October 2012 11:48, Bruce Adams <tortoise_74 at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> It sounds like what you want is a continous integration system.

> This is a slightly different job from a build tool and it usually makes more

> sense have the continousl integration system use

> the build tool rather than to combine the two into.

> I would recommend looking at Jenkins for a good open source continuous

> integration server though it might be overkill for your needs.

> I don't know how well it plays with scons as it comes from java land but I

> have used it with some success on plain old makefile projects.


I agree with Bruce's comments, it may not make sense to build this
functionality into SCons. There are ways for you to achieve what you
want relatively easily using a "file watching utility". I quickly
found this link which you may find useful:

http://superuser.com/questions/181517/how-to-execute-a-command-whenever-a-file-changes

Regards,

JB