[Scons-dev] SCons testing

[Bill Deegan]

stat() likely get's called on every single source file.
That's how you get the date stamps from the file.
So that's not really unexpected.

I"ll take a look at the test vs normal usage on the docbook logic later
today.

-Bill

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 7:23 AM, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) <
ttanner2 at bloomberg.net> wrote:

> I stuck in a pull request a day or so ago to cache the result of WhereIs
> as doing some tests with strace I've found that 'stat' gets called an
> /awful/ lot on our system (every single time we have a C++ source to
> compile for instance).
>
> Whilst I was running the tests, I found that all of the docbook related
> tests are failing because test.where_is is using a different path (the
> current OS one) to that used by the test (which are just using
> c:\windows\system32). I'm not sure what the solution is to this.
>
> Apologies if I sent this before, I thought I had but I can't see anything
> in my inbox at work which should have picked it up.
>
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