[Scons-users] Repositories and rstr/rfile

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 3:52 AM, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) <
ttanner2 at bloomberg.net> wrote:


> Sorry, my reply got lost somewhere I think (posibly by me)

>

> This doesn't work. The .rsrcpath on exists for $SOURCE and presumably

> $TARGET

>

> The underlying problem appears to be that when you are using a repository,

> if you have a build that copies stuff from the repository directly to the

> build directory then there's no way of finding out the original file when

> you do a build.

>

> Node.srcifle etc etc all assume if the file exists then that's the file to

> use, and only if it doesn't exist should you search in the repository.

>

> Now, I'm not entirely sure that a build rule where the target name and the

> source name are effectively identical is a sane rule, but it is allowed,

> even if messy.

>

> I just wonder if

> a) The person who wrote this is being rather silly and should be persuaded

> to do something else

> b) scons should warn/error if you do something like that

> c) scons should have something that given a Node, returns you the filename

> from the repository irrespective of whether the file exists in the build

> directory

>


How about just making it a python action, and check if the source and
target are the same before doing the shutil.copyfile?

-- 
Gary
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: http://four.pairlist.net/pipermail/scons-users/attachments/20140515/87c52b4a/attachment.html