[Scons-users] Scons understanding existing project

Thu Aug 4 12:30:00 EDT 2016

Pietro,

FYI: ton of information on the website: man pages, user guides, api docs.
http://scons.org/documentation.html

V/R,
William

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:28 PM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Pietro,
>
> Depends what you what exactly: http://scons.org/doc/HTML/
> scons-api/SCons.Node.FS.File-class.html
>
> I would use get_path() or get_abspath() perhaps on the File objects.
>
> V/R,
> William
>
> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 5:25 PM, Pietro Paolini <pietro.paolini at ocado.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am wrestling to print out the sources files resulting in a certain
>> target being built, I have inserted a print statement into the Sconscript
>> file as following :
>>
>>     src += [task_c]
>>     for p_file in src:
>>         print(p_file)
>>     env.Program('executable-name', source = src)
>>
>> But all I get is :
>>
>> * [<SCons.Node.FS.File object at 0x7f08505a4390>]
>> *
>> * [<SCons.Node.FS.File object at 0x7f08505b0050>, <SCons.Node.FS.File
>> object at 0x7f08505b0690>, <SCons.Node.FS.File object at 0x7f08505b0550>,
>> <SCons.Node.FS.File object at 0x7f08505b0a90>, <SCons.Node.FS.Fil
>> e object at 0x7f08505b0950>, <SCons.Node.FS.File object at
>> 0x7f08505a4ed0>, <SCons.Node.FS.File object at 0x7f08505b0310>] *
>>
>>
>> Is there any way to print the actual file name ?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Pietro
>>
>> On 4 August 2016 at 15:46, Jonathon Reinhart <jonathon.reinhart at gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Pietro,
>>>
>>> Normally, SCons only looks at the top-level SConstruct file by itself.
>>>
>>> The SConscript files (typically in sub-directories) are examined when
>>> the SConscript() function is called.
>>> See https://bitbucket.org/scons/scons/wiki/SConscript() for more
>>> information.
>>>
>>> I don't believe there are any debug options specifically for tracing
>>> which SConscript files are being read.
>>> However, since they are just Python scripts, you can put a print
>>> statement at the top-level of any SConscript
>>> and it will be printed as soon as it is read (during the earliest stage
>>> of SCons).
>>>
>>> Jonathon
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 6:30 AM, Pietro Paolini <pietro.paolini at ocado.com
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi all,
>>>>
>>>> I have been given the task of understanding the build process of a
>>>> middle size project built with Scons, as I am new to the tool I may be
>>>> asking the wrong/silly question.
>>>>
>>>> I'd like to track down the Sconstruct/SConscript being visited/executed
>>>> by the tool, is there any option which prints the work-flow ? I have tried
>>>> the several debugging options coming with it by none so far gives me what I
>>>> want, many print far too many information about the files being rebuild,
>>>> commands executed and stuff like that.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I am just interested in the SCons* files the tool visits so I can track
>>>> down the work flow.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Pietro
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