[Scons-users] quoting question in an Action call

[Christopher Murray]

Thank you for the reply.

Actually, that solution does not work either.  I tried that technique
first.  The error message I got was:

cat: /*.diag: No such file or directory

Which implies that the variable substitution was happening immediately (the
expected behavior when env.Action() form is used).  So I eliminated the use
of env and tried this:

diag_action = Action('cat ${TARGET.dir}/*.diag  > diag_concat')

but got the same error as I originally reported:

cat: build/cygwin/g95/x86/debug/src/*.diag: No such file or directory

But I have been able to move past my issue with a different solution.  The
following works:

      def catdiags(target=None, source=None, env=None):
         import subprocess
         command = 'cat ' + str(target[0].dir) + '/*.diag > diag_concat'
         subprocess.call(command, shell=True)
         return 0

      diag_action = env.Action(catdiags)
      env.AddPostAction(trace, diag_action)

Thank you for the help,
Chris




On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 8:42 AM, David Roundy <
roundyd at physics.oregonstate.edu> wrote:


> I expect

>

> diag_action = env.Action('cat ${TARGET.dir}/*.diag  > diag_concat')

>

> would work (as long as ${TARGET.dir} does not contain spaces, '>', or

> other shell-specific characters.  Specifying an action as a list presumably

> bypasses the shell, as that's what it does in most other languages.

>

> David

>

>

> On Fri, Aug 2, 2013 at 10:20 AM, Christopher Murray <murpup at gmail.com>wrote:

>

>> Hi,

>>

>> I have a situation where my compiler is able, through a command line

>> argument, to write all of the diagnostics and warnings it produces to

>> a separate file.   I would like to add a function to our build scripts

>> that is able to concatenate these individual diagnostic files into one

>> file.  This would allow us to easily compare it to previous code

>> versions and detect newly added warnings or other issues.  I could

>> create a separate script or python function which could be run at the

>> end of the build to do this, but I figured the most elegant solution

>> would be to do this with an Action object and AddPostAction.

>>

>> So I created a Action object like this:

>>

>>       diag_action = env.Action([['cat', '${TARGET.dir}/*.diag',  '>',

>> 'diag_concat']])

>>       env.AddPostAction(my_target, diag_action)

>>

>> But when I run the build, the cat program throws the following error:

>>

>> cat: build/cygwin/g95/x86/debug/src/*.diag: No such file or directory

>>

>> Since all the .diag files do, in fact, exist in that build directory,

>> I figure that the "*" character must be getting interpreted literally

>> by the shell.  I can replace the "*" with one of the actual file names

>> and it works just fine so it is not a relative path issue.

>>

>> Is there a way to wrap the system call to 'cat' and its arguments to

>> prevent such quoting problems?

>>

>> Thanks,

>> Chris

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