[Scons-users] Is their a way to build directly from the .sconsign.dblite file on an incremental build?

[Mats Wichmann]

On 10/5/20 12:55 PM, Don Baldwin wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>  
> 
> Is there an option for skipping the normal SConstruct file processing on
> an incremental build and just building directly from the saved
> .sconsign.dblite file from the previous build?

no - the sconsign file has enough information to let you determine if
rebuilds are needed - but only in the presence of the the scripts which
tell scons what to look for in the first place.

> The goal here is to provide an option for doing very fast incremental
> builds is the developer knows ahead of time that no dependencies have
> changed.

see
https://github.com/SCons/scons/pull/3642

work in progress, at the moment.