[Scons-users] ClassicCPP scanner fails with UTF-8 BOM on non-UTF8 file

[Dirk Bächle]

Hi Damjan,

On 29.06.20 06:29, Damjan Jovanovic wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am trying to port Apache OpenOffice to build with SCons, and while it's still early, so far it's been a fantastic replacement for
> its current "gbuild" system based on GNU make with unmaintainable custom eval()-based logic. It has all the advanced build features
> we need usable in such a clear and simple way.
>
> [...]
>
>
> I could hack File.get_text_contents() in engine/SCons/Node/FS.py to catch exceptions when parsing in utf-8 with the BOM removed and
> retry in latin-1. But an even better solution would be to limit the ClassicCPP scanner to only scan the .src files under the source/
> directory and ignore the generated files in other directories. Is there some way to do that?
>

If you don't want to scan files in the "generated" folders, wouldn't it be enough to remove those directories from the CPPPATH
variable? I mean, you could make a copy of CPPPATH, let's name it L10PATH, and remove the offending folders from it. Then pass that
one to the Scanner instead.

Best regards,

Dirk