[Scons-users] force rebuild of a specific target

[William Blevins]

If you are linux, the "find" command will do this reasonably quick.

V/R,
William

On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 5:33 PM, Roberto De Vecchi <
roberto.devecchi at vi-grade.com> wrote:

> William,
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> Thx for the quick answer! I’m mainly using MD5-timestamp decider with no
> cache. The method that seems closer to my goal is to delete the actual file
> and then rebuilt it but I would like to do this without having to browse to
> the directory that contains the target (I’m running with variant dir and a
> huge tree so finding out the file location is an annoying process !!)
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> Cheers
>
> Roberto
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> *From:* Scons-users [mailto:scons-users-bounces at scons.org] *On Behalf Of *William
> Blevins
> *Sent:* Friday, October 16, 2015 17:56
> *To:* SCons users mailing list <scons-users at scons.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Scons-users] force rebuild of a specific target
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> Also, depending on what decider you are using MD5 vs timestamp you may
> just be able to touch the file (IE. to change the timestamp).  Also, if you
> are using caching then the rebuild will just pull the old file from the
> cache since the dependencies will not have changed.
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> V/R,
>
> William
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> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 4:34 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> You can move or delete the file in question; this will mark the node as
> out-of-date which will cause a rebuild.  Is that sufficient?  You can also
> mark a node as AlwaysBuild if that is more what you are looking for:
> http://www.scons.org/doc/HTML/scons-user/ch06s09.html
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> V/R,
>
> William
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>
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> On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 3:47 PM, Roberto De Vecchi <
> roberto.devecchi at vi-grade.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
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> I’m looking for a way to request scons to rebuild a specific target. The
> best for me would be to find a way compatible with the interactive mode.
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> Digging a bit in the scons code base I found the option –assume-new that
> seems to do what I need ( mark a node as out of date ), but it’s not yet
> implemented.
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> As an alternative I tried issuing a clean + build commands on specific
> node, but in this way the clean command is cleaning all the nodes on which
> my target depends on making the build process too time consuming.
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> Any idea / suggestion is welcome!
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> Cheers,
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> roberto
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