[Scons-users] Node.FS get_path not working correctly?

[Bill Deegan]

That's the expected behavior. (Remember you could have a path on windows
which is on a different drive for which there is no relative path..)

On Sun, May 27, 2018 at 9:18 PM, Daniel Moody <dmoody256 at gmail.com> wrote:

> It seems if I use get path with a file this is outside of the base build
> dir or I try to get a path relative to a dir that is in the base build dir,
> get_path just returns the abspath?
>
> The function comment seems to suggest it would be relative:
>
> def get_path(self, dir=None):
>     """Return path relative to the current working directory of the
>     Node.FS.Base object that owns us."""
>
> Let SConstruct be:
>
> import os
>
> env = Environment()
> test_file1_node = env.File(os.path.abspath('../outer/testFile1.txt'))
> test_file2_node = env.File(os.path.abspath('./inner/testFile2.txt'))
> test_file3_node = env.File(os.path.abspath('./inner2/testFile3.txt'))
> print(test_file1_node.get_path())
> print(test_file2_node.get_path())
> print(test_file3_node.get_path('./inner2'))
>
> I get this as output:
>
> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
> C:\Users\Daniel\workspace\test\outer\testFile1.txt
> inner\testFile2.txt
> C:\Users\Daniel\workspace\test\base\inner2\testFile3.txt
> scons: done reading SConscript files.
> scons: Building targets ...
> scons: `.' is up to date.
> scons: done building targets.
>
> Any ideas? I have a pull request to fix it if it is a bug.
>
>
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