[Scons-users] Problem that has me scratching my head...

[syost at triad.rr.com]

I have a few packaging artifacts in my CVS package that I want to carry along with my build into my variant dir.   From everything I can tell, the builder for these resources is getting called.   In the end, its just a Copy() statement.   While the source for these artifacts are getting propagated to the variant_dir, the Copy() does not seem to be getting executed even though I have wrapped it in a "Command()" call.   Any idea??

Here is the build output.   Just choosing one artifact out of the log as an example - several are needing to be copied and are not:

(from reading SConscript)
Invoking generic file copy builder...
TARGET/SOURCE IS: mypackage-1.1.1/debian/changelog,packaging/changelog
<...snip...>

(from actual build)
Preparing target Remote/com/mycompany/so/utility/myprogram/myprogram-1.1.1/debian/changelog...
generic_file_copy_builder(["Remote/com/mycompany/so/utility/myprogram/myprogram-1.1.1/debian/changelog"], ["Remote/com/mycompany/so/utility/myprogram/packaging/changelog"])
TARGET/SOURCE IS: Remote/com/mycompany/so/utility/myprogram/myprogram-1.1.1/debian/changelog,Remote/com/mycompany/so/utility/myprogram/packaging/changelog

<...snip...>

(failure mode)
Preparing target myprogram_1.1.1-1.1.1_amd.deb...
cd /home/myaccount/git/app-genesis/lsql-build/Remote/com/mycompany/so/utility/myprogram/myprogram-1.1.1 && debuild -b
debuild: fatal error at line 633:
cannot find readable debian/changelog anywhere!
Are you in the source code tree?


Sure enough, changelog was propagated to the variant_dir ("Remote") but not copied to "debian"   Any clues?  Using --tree=prune does not show it so I suspect a dependency I am missing

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Relevant code from SConscript(there is more but this is all that is relevant):

def generic_file_copy_builder(target, source, env ):

    # Now we specify the general package related files (ie copyright, etc) to be included in the .deb
    print("TARGET/SOURCE IS: "+str(target[0])+","+str(source[0]))
    env.Command(target, source, Copy('$TARGET', '$SOURCE'))

# This is the debian package we're going to create
debpkg = '#%s_%s-%s_%s.deb' % (DEBPACKAGE, DEBVERSION, svn_version, DEBARCH)
# and we want it to be built when we build 'debian'
env.Alias("debian", debpkg)

copyBld = Builder(action = generic_file_copy_builder)
env.Append(BUILDERS = {'GenericCopy' : copyBld})

for packageFile in Glob('packaging/*'):
    myTarget = os.path.join(DEBPACKAGEDIR,"debian/" + os.path.basename(str(packageFile)))
    print("Invoking generic file copy builder...")
    print("TARGET/SOURCE IS: "+str(myTarget)+","+str(packageFile))
    finalFileLocation = env.GenericCopy(myTarget, packageFile)
    env.Depends(debpkg, finalFileLocation)


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Here is the directory structure of the code:

+-com/lowes/so/utility/myprogram
  +-com/lowes/so/utility/myprogram/packaging
  | +-com/lowes/so/utility/myprogram/bunch_of_c_files.c
  | +-com/lowes/so/utility/myprogram/bunch_of_headers.h
  | | +-com/lowes/so/utility/myprogram/packaging
  | | +-com/lowes/so/utility/myprogram/packaging/changelog
  | | +-com/lowes/so/utility/myprogram/packaging/several_more_packaging_artifacts
  +-com/lowes/so/utility/myprogram/SConscript



Thanks in advance for any assistance!!!!