[Scons-users] Creating SConscripts on the fly

[Bill Deegan]

You can do build/32 build/64

You don't have to do module_x level.


On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 3:23 PM, Hua Yanghao <huayanghao at gmail.com> wrote:

> > Because you can have N variant_dirs for a given source dir allowing
> multiple
> > variations of a build to run at the same time.
> > For example {32,64}/{release/debug/profile}/{linux,win32,osx} could
> > potentially all build at the same time.
> >
> > So with VariantDir (or variant_dir), you're saying build is a super
> > lightweight copy of src.  And in most cases either only copy what you
> use,
> > or copy nothing, but act as if the source files were there.
>
> I see the fundamental difference here, I always wanted something like
> build/64bit/... and build/32bit/... compared to
> build/module_x/{64bit,32bit}/...
>
> But Indeed I see the point is valid.
>
> Yes the copy on GNU/Linux is actually just a hard link, you can even
> just modified the "copied" file which is the same as the original one.
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