[Scons-users] How to build only a subset of targets under a directory

[Bill Deegan]

Jay,

You can list all the targets individually, you don't need aliases..

scons dir/dir/target_file works
and you can specify N targets on the command line.

Is that what you're looking for?

-Bill

On Fri, Apr 1, 2022 at 12:13 PM Jay West <jhdub23 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there a way to build only a subset of targets under a directory,
> instead of all targets under that directory?
>
> For example:
>
> top/aa
>   Alias('bin', bin_a)
>   Alias ('test', test_a)
> top/bb
>   Alias('bin', bin_b)
>   Alias ('test', test_b)
>
> scons top/aa # builds bin_a and test_a
> scons bin # builds bin_a and bin_b
>
> I want to do something like:
> cd top/aa; scons bin # build only bin_a
>
> I know that I can define more aliases, but doing so is a maintenance
> headache.  Is there better way?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jay
>
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