[Scons-users] SConscripts on the fly

[Bill Deegan]

+1 on Eric's sugguestion.
Unless you're planning on using variant_dir in your SConscript calls to
build multiple variants.

-Bill

On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 8:13 AM, Eric Lunderberg <eric.lunderberg at gmail.com>
wrote:

> As a potential alternative, if the SConscripts can be automatically
> generated from a top-level SConstruct, why not instead generate the build
> actions directly?  That way, the intermediate SConscript would not need to
> be generated at all.  If some directories require customized behavior, then
> those directories could be the only ones that contain a SConscript, and the
> top-level SConstruct could preferentially use such a SConscript if it
> exists.
>
> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 11:02 AM, William Blevins <wblevins001 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I've never tried doing something like that but maybe making a custom
>> builder that produces sconscript files would be appropriate.
>>
>> On May 16, 2017 10:23 AM, "Spencer Yost" <syost at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Thanks again for y'all's help a few weeks ago, we have SCons behaving
>>> pretty much as we expect. Still tweaking and playing to put together a
>>> final show and tell.
>>>
>>> Quick history:  As you may recall, we have hundreds of packages in a
>>> reverse domain tree that encompasses 10,000+  files.  We have decided that
>>> we would prefer creating the SConscript file in each package dynamically on
>>> the fly. There are several reasons for this that I will not bore you with.
>>>
>>> I'm trying to figure out the best way to do this. A PreAction() clearly
>>> won't work. I could use brute force and simply execute something out of the
>>> top level SConstruct where we find them and call SConscript(), but that
>>> seems like a hack.  It just "seems" like there should be a better way.
>>>
>>> What would you folks consider to be best practice for creating
>>> SConscripts on the fly?
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance!
>>>
>>> Spencer Yost
>>>
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