[Scons-users] Building D release and tests

[Russel Winder]

OK, I think I finally twigged that the D tools are broken. Sorry I was
so slow.

I shall construct a test and then a fix. And then a pull request which
hopefully can get accepted quickly.



On Tue, 2017-04-11 at 09:56 +0100, Russel Winder wrote:
> If you try to use SCons to build release code and test code, life
> gets
> very complicated, and I think shows that whilst variant builds may
> not
> be broken, they are not easy to use. (Meson and CMake make this
> relatively easy.)
> 
> To build out-of-tree (the only sane way) a release, I compile
> source/main.d with an environment that turns on all the
> optimisations.
> 
> To build the unittests (out-of-tree obviously), I compile
> source/main.d
> with different environment.
> 
> This causes problems because SCons sees the source/main.o twice in
> the
> tree and says 
> 
> scons: *** Two environments with different actions were specified for
> the same target:
> /home/users/russel/Repositories/Git/Masters/ApproxGC_D/source/main.o
> (action 1: ldc2
> -I=/home/users/russel/Repositories/Git/Masters/ApproxGC_D -O -c
> -of=main.o main.d)
> (action 2: ldc2
> -I=/home/users/russel/Repositories/Git/Masters/ApproxGC_D -unittest
> -c -of=main.o main.d)
> File
> "/home/users/russel/Repositories/Git/Masters/ApproxGC_D/SConscripts/U
> nitTests", line 3, in <module>
> 
> The problem here seems to be that the fact that the rule is in the
> context of a variant build is not being taken into account. One rule
> is
> making Build/Release/source/main.o the other
> Build/UnitTests/source/main.o, but the build DAG appears not to know
> this.
> 
> I have just put the code up on GitHub if anyone has time to take a
> peek
> at this.
> 
> https://github.com/russel/ApproxGC
> 
-- 
Russel.
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