[Scons-users] How to schedule long actions earlier in the compile phase

[Bill Deegan]

Don,

Not trivially.
Do these actions produce files used by other actions?

SCons doesn't really allow specifying order, Only dependencies.

Do these long actions depend on files generated by other builders?

-Bill

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 8:26 PM Don Baldwin <donb at qti.qualcomm.com> wrote:

> Hi,
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> In our build, we have some particularly long actions that take about 10
> minutes to complete.  If these get scheduled early during the compile phase
> of the build, there is no problem, but if they get scheduled later, then
> they become a long pole in the build, and keep running after everything
> else is complete.  This is causing some builds to take up to 5 minutes
> longer than others.
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> Is there a way to force SCons to run some actions before others as soon as
> they become available?  Maybe something like a priority queue?
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> Thanks,
>
> Don Baldwin
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