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

[Malek Musleh]

scons --tree=all lists the header files, but not the cpp or SConscript
files (this is true even for a clean build).

    +-export/include/zro2_client/Exception.h
    | +-tools/zro2_client/Exception.h
    +-export/include/zro2_client/Logger.h
    | +-tools/zro2_client/Logger.h
    +-export/include/zro2_client/LoggerBuilder.h
    | +-tools/zro2_client/LoggerBuilder.h
    +-export/include/zro2_client/LoggerStream.h
    | +-tools/zro2_client/LoggerStream.h
    +-export/include/zro2_client/MessageTag.h
    | +-tools/zro2_client/MessageTag.h
    +-export/include/zro2_client/MessageType.h
    | +-tools/zro2_client/MessageType.h
    +-export/include/zro2_client/zro2_client.h
      +-tools/zro2_client/zro2_client.h

On Tue, Jul 14, 2015 at 11:30 AM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> 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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