[Scons-users] How to debug infinite loop?

[Mats Wichmann]

On January 23, 2020 12:53:54 AM MST, Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm trying to get parallel builds working with a legacy SCons build.
>We're
>using version 3.0.1 and when building with more than 1 job, after a
>while
>the taskmaster always gets stuck at the same spot with the message:
>"Taskmaster: Looking for a node to evaluate, Taskmaster: No candidate
>anymore.".
>
>I'm pretty sure the fault is in our usage of SCons and not SCons
>itself. I
>think some of our tasks are getting stuck in an infinite loop when
>SCons
>uses more than one job. However, as there's a large amount of SCons
>scripts
>that could be causing the issue, It would be great if I could get SCons
>to
>list the current tasks that are in progress when it gets stuck in an
>infinite loop. That would at least give me an indication as to which
>part
>of the build is causing the issue.
>
>Does SCons provide anything that would help me further debug this
>issue?
>
>Regards,
>
>Daan De Meyer

try the --taskmastertrace option
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