[Scons-users] Is there a way to isolate building a specific file

[Mats Wichmann]

On 6/26/20 6:12 AM, Erik Kazandjian wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have the following issue. In my current project there is some template
> stuff going on which makes g++ going ballistic. If I run scons -j 6 my
> machine hangs if it happens to be compiling these 6 expensive files in
> parallel because the system runs out of memory. Is there a way to tell
> scons not to build any of these files in parallel ?

https://scons.org/doc/production/HTML/scons-man.html#f-SideEffect

The manpage isn't terribly verbose on this, there's also a wiki page but
all it really adds is examples:

https://github.com/SCons/scons/wiki/SideEffect