[Scons-users] Mixing VariantDirs with "in-tree" build

[Bill Deegan]

so if you swap the order it works?


        SConscript('A/SConscript', variant_dir='build', duplicate=0)
        SConscript('A/B/SConscript')


On Tue, Jan 29, 2019 at 1:13 PM Tobias Herzog <pasdVn3 at gmx.de> wrote:

> Hmm, don't know if I understand you correctly, but if A/B/foo is a regular
> file (i.e. not a generated file, a build target) everything works as
> expected, because scons looks up build/B/foo (which is in fact not there,
> because i Use duplicate=0 with the VariantDir) in the original directory
> A/B/foo.
> That is also why the build succeeds, when I execute the two commands below
> in reverse order (because I "manually" build A/B/foo before).
>
> Anyway, I accept the answer that this is intended behavior :)
>
>
>
> Am Dienstag, den 29.01.2019, 09:17 -0800 schrieb Bill Deegan:
>
> Your issue has nothing to do with whether the file foo is generated or
> just a regular file.
> You've created via your variantdir usage (as far as scons is concerned) a
> tree which looks like this:
>
> +-SConstruct
> +-A
>   +-SConscript
>   +-B
>     +-SConscript
>     +-foo.src
>     +-foo <- to be built
> +-build  <-- this is the directory scons "works in" when evaluating the
> SConscript below
>    +- SConscript
>    +- B <-- you're looking for this which doesn't and won't exist
>       +- foo <-- and this which doesn't and won't exist.
>
> Does that help?
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 11:30 PM pasdVn <pasdVn3 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Thanks for your quick reply!
>
> I thought that SCons is looking up a node via srcnode() and thus in the
> original location, if it is not found in the current variant dir, but
> obviously this is not the case here, because A/B/foo is a generate file
> (i.e. a target), right?
>
>
> Am 29. Januar 2019 00:51:33 MEZ schrieb Bill Deegan <
> bill at baddogconsulting.com>:
>
> See below
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2019 at 12:33 PM Tobias Herzog <pasdVn3 at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi scons users,
>
> consider the following demo project:
>
> +-SConsctuct
> +-A
>   +-SConscript
>   +-B
>     +-SConscript
>     +-foo.src
>
>
> With SConstruct:
>         SConscript('A/B/SConscript')
>         SConscript('A/SConscript', variant_dir='build', duplicate=0)
>
> A/SConscript:
>         Command(source='B/foo',
>                 target='bar',
>                 action='cat $SOURCE > $TARGET')
> A/B/SConscript:
>         Command(target='foo',
>                 source='foo.src',
>                 action='cat $SOURCE > $TARGET')
>
>
> No I do:
> > scons -Q --tree=all build/bar
> scons: *** [build/bar] Source `A/B/foo' not found, needed by target
> `build/bar'.
> +-build/bar
>   +-A/B/foo
>   +-/bin/cat
>
> and
> >scons -Q --tree=all A/B/foo
> cat A/B/foo.src > A/B/foo
> +-A/B/foo
>   +-A/B/foo.src
>   +-/bin/cat
>
>
> I know that this is a quite strage project setup, but nevertheless I
> would expect scons to detect the depencies correct. Is this a bug, or
> am I missing something?
>
>
> You're missing something.
> By saying:
>
> SConscript('A/SConscript', variant_dir='build', duplicate=0)
>
> This is the same as:
> VariantDir('build','A', duplicate=0)
> SConscript('build/SConscript')
>
> So when you're asking for B/foo from that SConscript, you're actually
> asking for build/B/foo.
> If you changed it to "#/A/B/foo" it would work, or "../A/B/foo"
>
>
>
> If I Return/Export the foo-node and use it in the Command in
> A/SConscript it works as intended.
>
>
> Thanks,
> Tobias
>
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