[Scons-users] Pulling information out of sconsign

[Fred Wright]

On Tue, 17 May 2016, Evan Driscoll wrote:

> On 2016-05-17 02:35, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) wrote:
> > Sadly scons doesn't store the fully expanded command line inside the
> > .sconsign file. I actually did this where I work and the changes are
> > small but increases the size of the file hugely, and it should be
> > noted that it doesn't make so much sense for commands that are
> > actually python functions.
>
> That's too bad; I guess I'll see if I can figure out another way. Maybe
> 'scons |& grep gcc > commands.txt' :-).

If scons always uses the same Python function(s) to execute external
commands, you could just install a wrapper around that function(s) to
capture the commands (and even the environment).  Depending on where it
fits in, it may or may not need to worry about parallelism for -j.

Fred Wright