[Scons-users] Repositories and rstr/rfile

[Dirk Bächle]

On 15.05.2014 20:12, Dirk Bächle wrote:
> Hi Tom.
>
> On 15.05.2014 09:52, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) wrote:
>> Sorry, my reply got lost somewhere I think (posibly by me)
>>
>> This doesn't work. The .rsrcpath on exists for $SOURCE and presumably 
>> $TARGET
>>
>> The underlying problem appears to be that when you are using a 
>> repository, if you have a build that copies stuff from the repository 
>> directly to the build directory then there's no way of finding out 
>> the original file when you do a build.
>>
>> Node.srcifle etc etc all assume if the file exists then that's the 
>> file to use, and only if it doesn't exist should you search in the 
>> repository.
>
> And if this file is an exact copy of the one in the repo, why would 
> you care?
>
> I still have some trouble understanding why you need to copy those 
> files at all. Apart from the fact that Install() might be better 
> suited anyway, wouldn't simply referencing the files with 
> "${SOURCE.rsrcpath}", in the Builder where they are actually used, cut 
> the mustard?
>

For the sake of completeness, I just found out that the "filesystem" 
Tool (gets loaded automatically) offers the undocumented functions 
CopyTo() and CopyAs() (see issue #2652).
Maybe they can help...

Regards,

Dirk