[Scons-users] Repositories and rstr/rfile

[Dirk Bächle]

Tom,

On 13.05.2014 15:30, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) wrote:

> Someone has decided that it'd be a good thing to have a file in a 

> repository (i.e. scons -Y <repo>) which gets copied unchanged into the 

> build directory at the same location. Thus he has code of the general 

> form:

>

> Import('*')

>

> for f in Glob('some.config.*'):

> Depends('test.pcv', Command(f, f.rfile(), Copy('$TARGET', '$SOURCE')))

>

> Except this doesn't work, because the 2nd time you do a build, f and 

> f.rfile() are now the same thing. As far as I can tell this is only 

> related to repositories.

>

> Choices seem to be:

> 1) use os.path.join(path-to-repo, f) instead of f.rfile() or f.abspath 

> or f.prettymuchanything()

> 2) Tell him to do something different, like not use the same names. 

> This sort of breaks down as he claims something similar works if he's 

> not using a repository.

> 3) I'm missing some easy way of finding out the actual source of an 

> item in a repository

>

please have a look at the MAN page, section "Variable Substitution". The 
".rsrcpath" attribute/method might be what you're looking for.

Regards,

Dirk

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