[Scons-dev] scons copyto /path/to/project

anatoly techtonik techtonik at gmail.com
Mon Sep 7 10:33:15 EDT 2020


On Sun, Sep 6, 2020 at 7:12 PM Mats Wichmann <mats at wichmann.us> wrote:
> >
> > Is it possible to create a build command that will copy
> > SCons local to the target directory?
> >
> >     SCons/ -> /path/to/project/SCons/
> >     scripts/scons.py -> /path/to/project/scons
> >
> > I haven't used SCons for a while and I don't remember
> > how to create phony target "copyto" and handle path
> > parameter to it.
>
> Phony targets are Alias.
> Copying stuff usually involves some combination of Install and Default.
>
> If that's what you are asking...

Yup, thanks. I created a target that copies `scripts/scons.py` to `scons`,
which is invoked as `scons copyto`:

    Command('scons', [], Copy('$TARGET', 'scripts/scons.py'))
    Alias('copyto', 'scons')

Now how to parse `/path/to/project` param to `copyto`?
-- 
anatoly t.


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