Re: Default() and Ignore() - seem a little awkward

Bill Deegan <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.programming.tools.scons.user
Message-ID <CAEyG4CEHZYgLti1mO+rP9T3W3U7GCZiq4XrPCy38kgQkn98FbQ@mail.gmail.com>
Could what you want to do be better achieved by not adding the examples in
your relevant SConscript if such target(s) aren't asked for?

On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 5:18 PM Mats Wichmann <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 1/4/19 2:38 PM, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:
> > For any significant SCons project, I always use something like
> > Default(Alias("DefaultBuild")). Then I add targets to that alias if they
> > should be in the default build. And I create other aliases for optional
> > targets. I find that only rarely is the SCons default of building '.'
> what
> > I really want by default.
> >
> > BTW, it's simple to add to an Alias even without passing it around;
> > Alias("DefaultBuild", my_target) works to add to it from anywhere deep in
> > the build.
> >
> > -- Gary
>
> okay, thanks.
>
> our project does do some things that hint at a similar approach though
> not going the whole way, maybe I should be more trusting of the existing
> code :)
>
> cheers,
>
> -- mats
>
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