[Scons-users] "install" with link?

[Joanne Bogart]

Yes, roughly. I probably need something a little more complicated so 
that the behavior will be different on Windows,  I just wanted to be 
sure it wasn't already lying around somewhere.

thanks,
Joanne

On 09/14/2012 05:32 AM, Francis Bolduc wrote:

> 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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