Re: [gpsd-dev] scons quirks

[Greg Troxel]

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:

> Greg Troxel <address@hidden>:
>> It seems 'scons install' will build targets.  That is a bug; it should
>> refuse to build them, and refuse to proceed, erroring out instead.
>
> First, the practical fix.  I've added libgps.pc, libgpsd.pc, and the
> generated egg-info to the normal targets.  This means:
>
> 1. They get created by 'scons' (aka scons build).
>
> 2. They get cleaned by scons -c.
>
> 3. If you do scons build, then immediately scons install, no file creations 
>    will take place. It will be a pure sequences of copies except for the
>    chrpath rwiddling, which doesn't change ownership.

Great - that sounds like it addresses all the real problems.

> Then the theoretical.  I agree that when run as root install should
> ideally speaking error out with a useful message if requirements are
> missing, rather than creating files.
>
> I don't know how to arrange this in scons. But to be fair,
> autoconf/make didn't work this way either.  I think this would call
> for a basic change in the semantics of SCons's Install primitive.

Agreed this is hard and not done everywhere else.

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