[Scons-users] "install" with link?

[Francis Bolduc]

I guess one could easily make a custom builder that does that. Something like:

env['BUILDERS']['InstallLink'] = env.Builder("ln -s $SOURCE $TARGET")
env.InstallLink(file, target)

--
Francis Bolduc, B.Sc.


On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 7:02 PM, Joanne Bogart <jrb at slac.stanford.edu> wrote:

> Hi,

> We install various files needed at run-time.  On Linux platforms we also

> install headers, however this means that the copy of a header which a

> developer sees in gdb is not necessarily the right one to modify.  Just as

> --duplicate allows me to specify how files should be duplicated in the build

> tree; I would like some feature which would let me tell Install(  ) whether

> copy, symbolic link or hard link should be used.   Probably it should be

> specifiable per Install( ) instead of or in addition to a global switch.  Is

> there some feature like this that I missed?  If not, could it be added?

>

> thanks,

> Joanne

>

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