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

[Daniel Moody]

Ok but that's not the case in my example. Seems like it should have a
special case if it's on another drive, which then it does return the
abspath, because there is no relative path.

On Mon, May 28, 2018, 5:36 PM Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:

> 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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