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

[William Blevins]

SCons has not released an official version with the patch.  I think that we
are waiting to finalize the slots optimizations.
On Apr 22, 2015 8:38 AM, "Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON)" <
ttanner2 at bloomberg.net> wrote:

> Ah, yes, that is the issue, and we don't have that fix yet
>
> From: scons-users at scons.org At: Apr 22 2015 00:43:53
> To: scons-users at scons.org <#14ce1232ff0f1fe5_>
> Subject: Re: [Scons-users] why are links going in the build cache?
>
> 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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