[Scons-users] NoClean and node lists

[Dirk Bächle]

On 26.04.2014 11:29, Dirk Bächle wrote:

> Hi Robert,

>

> [...]

> If I find the time, I'll dig into the code and try to find out why 

> your approach doesn't work too.

>

> Best regards,

>

> Dirk

>


Okay, found it in "SCons/Scripts/Main.py" (CleanTask), ll. 353:

     def remove(self):
         target = self.targets[0]
         if (target.has_builder() or target.side_effect) and not 
target.noclean:
             for t in self.targets:
                 try:
                     removed = t.remove()

So, for multi-target builders SCons checks only the first one in the 
target list for the "NoClean" flag. Hmmm, now this looks a bit like a 
lazy hack to me.
As your post clearly showed, a user would expect a different behaviour. 
Does anybody know of a situation where the current code actually makes 
sense, or should we file a bug report for this?

Regards,

Dirk