[Scons-users] modifying how scons looks for dependencies?

[Robert Zeigler]

Certainly, I could patch scons. :) To clarify my question, is there a way to override this from within a build file, without patching scons? I'll keep digging through docs and code. 

Robert




> On Dec 6, 2013, at 11:07 PM, William Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:

> 

> Robert,

>> On Dec 6, 2013, at 5:16 PM, robert zeigler <robert.zeigler at gmail.com> wrote:

>> 

>> I'm experimenting with using scons in a distributed compute environment, where the main scons process runs on a master node, but individual tasks are farmed out to compute nodes. 

>> 

>> This works fine as long as the build is occurring in a shared-storage location visible to all nodes. However, I'm exploring use cases where POSIX-compliant storage may not be available (or desirable), but an alternative, fast, shared data store is.

>> 

>> My question is, is it possible to override the default mechanism scons uses for checking that a dependency exists before building a target?

> 

> It's just python. You can change it anyway you like.

> Would such a patch be accepted? Depend on the implementation and performance impact.

> You could use something like distcc ..

> 

> -Bill

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