[Scons-users] when to use depends and when to use requires

Bill Deegan bill at baddogconsulting.com
Thu Nov 10 16:58:41 EST 2022


In this case it seems he's aware of the files produced and/or dependencies
so one could specify those as targets of the builder/commands and then just
not use all of those in the command line generated. That'd be the cleanest
option assuming you know about the important files.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2022 at 2:11 PM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:

> On 11/10/22 11:35, Bill Deegan wrote:
> > If you need either.. you're probably doing something wrong.. (TM -
> Me...;)
> >
> > The fact that you're using either means that the relevant files weren't
> > listed as a source or a target to the correct builders and/or the extra
> > sources/dependencies weren't found by a scanner.
>
> in the latter case, if you're doing something that's custom and not a
> language SCons recognizes, the "scanner doesn't find it" isn't that odd,
> is it?
>
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