[Scons-users] why are links going in the build cache?

[William Blevins]

Your issue may or may not have already been fixed.  See
https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/pull-request/227/issue-2395-symlink-support-hotfix/diff
for more info.

Also, see the User Guide for Copy behavior on symlinks.

V/R,
William

On Tue, Apr 21, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
wrote:

> Tom,
>
> What type of files do the symlinks point to? (Shared libraries, object
> files, other)
>
> -Bill
>
> On Tuesday, April 21, 2015, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) <
> ttanner2 at bloomberg.net> wrote:
>
>> I had a poke through our build cache today because somehow or other it
>> had got sufficiently corrupt to make our aix build lock up solid. And i
>> found a whole bunch of soft links in there.
>>
>> It seems rather unnecessary - as the softlink ppoints to something that
>> doesn't actually exist (as it's a relative path from the directory in which
>> the link was created), the attempt to copy is presumably going to fail, so
>> scons will have to create the link anyway. And if it did point somewhere
>> valid, wouldn't the file be copied to rather than linked?
>>
>
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