[Scons-users] Recursive directories, and the ignoring of filenames.

[Alistair Buxton]

On 3 August 2018 at 19:20, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:

>
> Here's what you said in your initial email
> "All files under /some/path will be inserted into the image. Therefore,
> if any file or subdirectory is renamed, the image needs to be rebuilt,"
>
> So in the case above, rebuilding is correct?

Yes, it is the correct behaviour, but it happens for the wrong reason.
It happens as a result of the action string changing, NOT because the
sources changed, and as I wrote:

On 3 August 2018 at 00:53, Alistair Buxton <a.j.buxton at gmail.com> wrote:

> However, this is not so easy with the image builder case as it takes a
> directory path as the only argument.

In other words, the action string will not change when you have a tool
which takes a single directory path as the only argument, and as a
result, the build will not be re-run.