[Scons-users] Customize build decision logic for phony targets, that doesn't involve files

[Andrew Pashkin]

On 03/28/2016 07:59 PM, Bill Deegan wrote:
> Try:
> scons --debug=explain
Here is what I get:

    scons: Reading SConscript files ...
    scons: done reading SConscript files.
    scons: Building targets ...
    scons: building `target' because it doesn't exist
    action(["target"], ['a'])
    Do crazy things
    scons: done building targets.

What I want to know is not a concrete solution, but an answer on a 
question: conceptually, should SCons handle such case, as this script, 
or not? Meaning - is it a bug or it's a intended constraint for SCons to 
work only on files?
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