[Scons-dev] Don't want to use target as source...

[Bill Deegan]

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On Sun, Sep 18, 2016 at 8:45 AM, Left Right <olegsivokon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to write a builder which doesn't take a file as a source.
> The whole area of source_factory and target_factory in Builders is a
> huge mess, and it's impossible to understand why things produce the
> results they do.  For instance, one extremely undesirable behavior, of
> which I cannot find the source is that if the source isn't given, then
> the target assumed to be the source.
>
> Basically, I need something that works like Library() builder.  I
> tried to read the code, but after ten delegations of delegations to
> delegations to other delegations I've lost track.  Even simpler.  I
> want the source to be a directory.  Not a file.  I can write a scanner
> that generates all file names given the directory name, but I keep
> running into unrelated errors in Scons code which assume too much
> about what things can be built and the way to do that, and they are
> never right.
>
> Bottom line: isn't there any way to circumvent all the layers of
> needless abstraction on top of Node and Builder classes and just have
> access to the database and tasks / jobs?  Example would help hundred
> times more than an explanation.
>
> Thanks.
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