[Scons-users] What affects rebuilding?

[Douwe Gelling]

I have used --debug=explain, which shows me that file a/b/c.cpp was removed
from the dependency list and file a/b/c.cpp added to the dependency list
and that was why the file had to be recompiled. This was not very
informative, so I've changed the explain function to print the path field
of a File object instead of using stringify, and it is comparing an
original file and a file copied to the variant directory..

On 30 June 2015 at 16:57, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:

> Try:
>
> scons --debug=explain
>
> It should tell you why targets are being built..
>
> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:38 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> May also be a VariantDir specific issue.
>>
>> V/R,
>> William
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:37 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I think this is the issue you are describing.
>>>
>>> http://scons.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=2980
>>>
>>> There is part of a patch attached.  I looked at it at some point, but
>>> there were still tests failing.
>>>
>>> V/R,
>>> William
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jun 30, 2015 at 10:23 AM, Douwe Gelling <douwegelling at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I have a problem where scons rebuilds files when I change targets on
>>>> the commandline.
>>>> I make use of the COMMAND_LINE_TARGETS list to optionally use some
>>>> other sconsfiles,
>>>> and also use variant directories to set the object output directories.
>>>> It seems somehow this
>>>> may all be interacting with each other.
>>>>
>>>> Specifically, I get the following type of behaviour:
>>>>
>>>> 1. I build my program using the default target (scons -jN ...)
>>>>
>>>> 2. I build some extra program by setting a new target. It depends on
>>>> some files that were compiled before,
>>>>     but decides to rebuild it. Using --explain, I get the following
>>>> type of message:
>>>>
>>>> rebuilding 'a/b/c/d.o' because
>>>>    a/b/c/d.cpp is no longer a dependency
>>>>    a/b/c/d.cpp is a new dependency
>>>>
>>>> 3. I build my default program again, scons rebuilds everything yet
>>>> again, giving the same message as in 2.
>>>>
>>>> I've changes the scons source a bit to show more information in the
>>>> explain function, and it turns out that
>>>> in both steps 2 and 3, the file that is no longer a dependency is the
>>>> original cpp file, and the file that is a
>>>> new dependency is the file located in the variant directory (say,
>>>> a/b/c/obj/linux/x86_64/d.cpp).
>>>>   This happens even though in the call to VariantDir, duplicate is set
>>>> to 0. If I set it to 1 instead, the message
>>>> scons gives me is that it's rebuilding 'because the contents of the
>>>> build action changed'
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 30 June 2015 at 15:31, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> See the Decider section of the man page for how scons determines if a
>>>>> source has changed.
>>>>>
>>>>> SCons also checks for changes to the overall build command as
>>>>> generated by the executor.
>>>>>
>>>>> What is your specific question?
>>>>>
>>>>> V/R,
>>>>> William
>>>>> On Jun 30, 2015 5:28 AM, "Douwe Gelling" <douwegelling at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I'm wondering which things scons tracks when deciding whether or not
>>>>>> to rebuild a file, apart
>>>>>> from the file itself. I know changing commandline variables forces a
>>>>>> rebuild, but are there other
>>>>>> things that do the same? For example, does scons look for changes in
>>>>>> the environment for a particular file? Or something else?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> thanks
>>>>>>
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