[Scons-dev] SCons testing

[Bill Deegan]

That's very strange.
Do you have a stack trace of that?
Curious to see the path through the code causing that.

-Bill

On Wed, Sep 28, 2016 at 10:12 AM, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) <
ttanner2 at bloomberg.net> wrote:

> The general number isn't unexpected. The total number is a bit more so as
> WhereIs gets called once for each command more or less. If you have 5,000
> compile steps that's 5,000 calls to stat the compiler path.
>
> From: bill at baddogconsulting.com At: 09/28/16 13:20:50
> To: Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) <ttanner2 at bloomberg.net>,
> scons-dev at scons.org
> Subject: Re: [Scons-dev] SCons testing
>
> 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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