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

[Bill Deegan]

Probably scons --tree=all | grep SConscript ?

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 1:57 PM, Malek Musleh <malek.musleh at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I think I might have found the problem: There are a bunch of
> side-projects in the same build directory whose SConscript files need
> to have variant_dir added.
>
> Is there a way to print out the list of SConscript files read just
> before scons starts building?
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 10:15 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
> > 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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