[Scons-users] Ignoring (some) errors

[Bill Deegan]

Marc,

What platform is this on?
Could you try swapping the SHELL for the commands you don't care if they
fail and make a shell script which ignores the errors and always returns 0?

-Bill

On Fri, Apr 10, 2015 at 8:34 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Marc,
>
> My recommendation is to run SCons twice with different "targets" and
> options.  Their will be some overhead, but I don't see another (easy) way
> to do what you are asking.
>
> Pass 1) Run scons (on build targets) like normal so that it fails like
> normal if anything fails to build.
> Pass 2) Run scons (on assembling targets) with -k option.
>
> V/R,
> William
>
> On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 5:32 PM, Marc Branchaud <marcnarc at xiplink.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On 15-04-08 04:30 PM, Dirk Bächle wrote:
>> > Hi Marc,
>> >
>> > On 08.04.2015 20:06, Marc Branchaud wrote:
>> >> Hi all,
>> >>
>> >> I have a project that builds many binaries, then assembles them in
>> different
>> >> ways to create different products.  All of this is conveniently
>> depended-on
>> >> by a single Alias target (e.g. "allproducts").
>> >>
>> >> I would like to execute this build in parallel (with --jobs).
>> However, I
>> >> would also like for the second step to be robust against a failure to
>> >> assemble a product.
>> >>
>> >> There is --keep-going, but if I read the man page correctly that would
>> still
>> >> abort my single allproducts target if there's a failure ("The target
>> that
>> >> failed and those that depend on it will not be remade, but other
>> targets
>> >> specified on the command line will still be processed.")
>> >>
>> >
>> > there is also -i/--ignore-errors (see
>> >
>> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23825405/ignore-build-errors-and-build-as-far-as-possible-with-scons-i-or-with-scons-k
>> > , amongst others).
>> > Does that help?
>>
>> (Heh -- missed -i when I skimmed through the man page...)
>>
>> I guess --ignore-errors wouldn't abort the single allproducts target, but
>> it's still not what I want.
>>
>>  - Any error in the first part, where the many binaries are being built,
>> should abort the whole build.  It's in the second part that I want to get
>> as
>> many products assembled as possible, irrespective of any products failing.
>>
>>  - I still want the build to report any product-assembly failures
>> (specifically, exit with a non-zero code), so that they get noticed and
>> fixed.
>>
>>  - The description of -i talks about "commands executed to rebuild files"
>> but
>> I want this to work on clean builds.  (Perhaps I should mention that the
>> main
>> user of this "allproducts" target is a build bot, not a human.)
>>
>>                 M.
>>
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