[Scons-users] symlink builder

[Mark Diekhans]

Thanks Bill,

Yes, I am using --duplicate=0.  We specifically want to only
symlink one directory, not duplicated anything.  That is, a
symbolic link to treated as a first class file thought the build
and install process.

We have a hacky working around using Command, however it will not
do the right thing if the value of the symlink changed.

Cheers
Mark

From: Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> Are you using duplicate=0?
> I guess why are the files real files in your variant dir?
> 
> >From manpage:
> --duplicate=*ORDER*
> 
> There are three ways to duplicate files in a build tree: hard links, soft
> (symbolic) links and copies. The default behaviour of SCons is to prefer
> hard links to soft links to copies. You can specify different behaviours
> with this option. *ORDER* must be one of *hard-soft-copy* (the default),
> *soft-hard-copy*, *hard-copy*, *soft-copy* or *copy*. SCons will attempt to
> duplicate files using the mechanisms in the specified order.