[Scons-users] Scons does not knkow how to Make File Target after adding Variant Build

[Bill Deegan]

Malek,

Any chance you can make a small dummy build which demonstrates the problem?

-Bill

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 12:48 PM, Malek Musleh <malek.musleh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to make scons build my project + object files into a
> separate build directory instead of doing it in the source
> directories.
>
> To do this, I made the following changes to the SConstruct/SConscript
> files in the project:
>
> I included the "variant_dir" whereevere the SConscript files were being
> sourced.
> I also added duplicate=0, and set an environment option where
> duplicate=0 indicates soft-copy link of .cpp files instead of
> duplicating the source files in the build.
>
>
> SConscript('archlib/SConscript', variant_dir = joinpath(build_roo
> t, 'archlib'), duplicate=0)
>
> Doing so, makes it partially works: as in the build directory is
> created, and I see the source files being soft-linked, but I get the
> custom error saying:
>
> scons: *** Do not know how to make File target `'.  Stop.
>
> (I have removed the binary name from the above output, but the File
> target it says it cannot build is the project binary. From my
> experience, this is because of some bad build rules (typo or
> something) but I don't see that being the case here.
>
> Reading online, doing what I did should be enough for building into a
> separate build directory, so I am not sure what is causing the error.
> Is there something else I am missing?
>
> Malek
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