[Scons-users] managing dependencies

[Bill Deegan]

That said if you have to do this, you're likely doing something wrong.

If you have a custom builder, perhaps you're not adding all the output
files in the emitter or in the emitter call.
SCons can't order dependencies it's not aware of.

-Bill

On Mon, Dec 9, 2019 at 3:26 AM Arvid Rosén <arvid at softube.com> wrote:

> Well,
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> In SCons, there is no need to use an extra file for this purpose. You can
> declare dependencies without having files too.
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> I mean something like this:
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> A = Program(“a.cpp”)
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> B = Program(“b.cpp”)
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> C = Program(“c.cpp”)
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> D = Program(“d.cpp”)
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> Depends(C, A)
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> Depends(D, [A, B])
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> Builds of A and B starts immediately. C starts when A is finished. D
> starts when A and B have finished.
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> Being a python script, this can be made more general using for loops and
> stuff, and we typically have a variable somewhere to control how many
> products that can be in-flight simultaneously. Btw, this is a typical use
> case of “Requires” rather than “Depends” I guess, but I chose the latter
> for simplicity here.
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> Cheers,
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> Arvid
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> *From: *daggs <daggs at gmx.com>
> *Date: *Monday, 9 December 2019 at 09:04
> *To: *Arvid Rosén <arvid at softube.com>
> *Cc: *SCons users mailing list <scons-users at scons.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Scons-users] managing dependencies
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> Greetings,
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> something like for all short deps, depend them on a file which I can use
> touch to create?
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> will the same file for all of them do the job?
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> Thank,
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> Dagg.
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> *Sent:* Monday, December 09, 2019 at 9:38 AM
> *From:* "Arvid Rosén" <arvid at softube.com>
> *To:* "SCons users mailing list" <scons-users at scons.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Scons-users] managing dependencies
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> Hi,
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> Maybe, but I certainly wouldn’t rely on that.
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> We do very massive builds with hundreds of targets in parallel. To avoid
> all targets finishing almost at the same time (competing with each other
> for the same limited resources), we add “fake” dependencies so to schedule
> the builds so that only a couple of targets can be worked on at the same
> time, but still 20 threads or so can be used. This is very easy to do in
> SCons.
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> Cheers,
>
> Arvid
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> *From: *Scons-users <scons-users-bounces at scons.org> on behalf of daggs <
> daggs at gmx.com>
> *Reply to: *SCons users mailing list <scons-users at scons.org>
> *Date: *Monday, 9 December 2019 at 08:06
> *To: *"scons-users at scons.org" <scons-users at scons.org>
> *Cc: *SCons users mailing list <scons-users at scons.org>
> *Subject: *Re: [Scons-users] managing dependencies
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> Greetings,
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> does the order of dependecy declaration affects the order?
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> Dagg.
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> *Sent:* Monday, December 09, 2019 at 1:06 AM
> *From:* "Bill Deegan" <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> *To:* "SCons users mailing list" <scons-users at scons.org>
> *Subject:* Re: [Scons-users] managing dependencies
>
> Nope.
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> You specify the dependencies, SCons figures out the order.
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> If you need one thing to happen before another then that's a dependency
> you must explicitly list.
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> -Bill
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> On Sun, Dec 8, 2019 at 4:49 AM daggs <daggs at gmx.com> wrote:
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> Greetings,
>
> I wanted to ask about scons dependencies management, I have a target with
> large number of dependencies, all the dependencies don't have dependencies
> of their own.
> some of the dependencies take more time to generate than the other ones.
> I've noticed that not all the dependencies are handled at the start (I
> have a print at the start of each dependency handling).
> is it possible to instruct scons to give an higher priority to a specific
> dependency?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dagg.
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