[Scons-users] question about directories and build

[William Blevins]

To my knowledge, SCons treats directories as targets just like any other
Action output. Consider env.Mkdir() and how SCons would behave if no target
was created for the directory?

I do not know if directories have binfo objects associated.

On Wed, Mar 2, 2016 at 3:06 PM, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) <
ttanner2 at bloomberg.net> wrote:

> I have found someone has added a rule to our build which has a directory
> as a target. I found this out when trying to get hold of the binfo for it.
> Because there wasn't one.
>
> Should scons be allowing you to create directories as targets of rules?
> I've normally relied on scons creating directories if it needs to so I'm
> not sure why he's doing this, but as scons doesn't detect it as an error,
> I'm a bit loath to tell the author there is a mistake without checking with
> others.
>
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