[Scons-users] persistent but local tweaks to a node's environment

[Bill Deegan]

On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 2:04 PM Gabe Black <gabe.black at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 12:20 PM Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
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>> So at the time you call StaticObject(), for example, do you know what
>> flags are needed for that  source?
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> No, I know what *extra* flags are needed for that source, not what those
> flags will be added to. For instance I know I need to disable a warning
> because of an unavoidable local false positive, but not to enable debug
> information, or turn up optimizations.
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O.k. That's what I meant (but wasn't as clear as was needed.. ;)
Where is that info stored? in the Environment() or outside of it?
Can I access it via something like the following?
my_object[source_file_name]


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>> Also according to your response above, I would set OBJSUFFIX in the
>> Environment() which should be per build flavor.
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> Yes, per my previous email I'm doing that already. as the second to last
> step, I Clone the main environment and customize it for each flavor, then
> loop over all the targets (top level and below) for each build flavor.
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O.k. so no more work needed for this?


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>> re a single pass in the SConscripts, if you're not directly calling SCons
>> methods, but rather building up a "database" of the build which then gets
>> processed, then it'd be possible to avoid multiple SConscript calls to each
>> SConscript, however if the logic in those SConscripts doesn't different
>> things for different variants, it seems like you'd only be adding more
>> complexity to your "database" of build info.
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>> Honestly, the further you get from plain SConscripts, the harder it will
>> be for developers to learn and work on your build system.
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> Yes, as I've mentioned several times, the idea of this is to get closer to
> plain SConscripts and remove our extra layers. I'm trying to figure out how
> to do that.
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Indeed.
We'll do our best to assist.

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That may speed up this discussion...
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