[Scons-users] Command fails if action is simply $SOURCE

[William Deegan]

Carnë,
On Feb 28, 2013, at 10:15 AM, Carnë Draug <carandraug+dev at gmail.com> wrote:


> Hi

> 

> I'm trying to set a bunch of scripts as commands which are then

> grouped as a single target with Alias. I'm doing something like this

> 

> analysis1 = env.Command(target = "result1", source = "script1.pl",

> action = "$SOURCE")

> analysis2 = env.Command(target = "result2", source = "script2.pl",

> action = "$SOURCE")

> analysis3 = env.Command(target = "result3", source = "script3.pl",

> action = "$SOURCE")

> 

> env.Alias("analysis", [analysis1, analysis2, analysis3])

> 

> 

> However, this fails. All I get is:

> 

> $scons analysis

> scons: Reading SConscript files ...

> scons: done reading SConscript files.

> scons: Building targets ...

> scons: done building targets.

> 

> I can make SCons run the scripts if I set the action to "./$SOURCE",

> "perl $SOURCE", "$SOURCE --" or anything like that. The files should

> have the correct permissions (744). Even if I set $SOURCE to a path, I

> get the same problem so shouldn't be a matter of adding anything to

> the search path.

> 

> Is this a bug in SCons or am I doing something wrong? And is there a

> better way to do this?


Try: "scons --debug=explain analysis"

Also can you paste the output from:
scons --tree=prune analysis

-Bill