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

[Bill Deegan]

If it's not in the manpage, then it's not supported..
I don't think there is.

Maybe some creative use of the decider..

-Bill


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:22 PM, Robert Zeigler <robert.zeigler at gmail.com>wrote:


> 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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