Re: Build pruning

[Bob Sidebotham]

You can always use "+foo[AB]/Conscript". It's just a regexp matching on
the whole pathname.

Bob

--- "Gressett, Mark" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>  
> I'm running  Cons 1.8 on WinNT 4.0, SP 6.
>  
> I'm trying to get build pruning to work, e.g., 'cons build +stuff'
> would
> build things on which 'stuff' depends, along with 'stuff', but would
> not
> build things which depend on 'stuff'.
>  
> I have a top-level Construct file that builds Conscripts in
> subdirectories, some of which build Conscripts in subdirectories,
> e.g.,
>     Construct
>         fooA\Conscript
>         fooB\Conscript
>             barA\Conscript
>                 stuff\Conscript
>                 otherstuff\Conscript
>  
> 'cons build +stuff' doesn't work (it builds nothing), presumably
> because
> fooA and fooB at the top level don't match 'stuff'.  'cons build
> +fooB
> +barA +stuff' also doesn't work (it builds everything under barA).
>  
> Moving the list of leaf node Conscripts to the root (and eliminating
> the
> interior node Conscripts) yields the documented behavior.  That is,
> using this structure
>     Construct
>         fooA\Conscript
>         fooB\barA\stuff\Conscript
>         fooB\barA\othersutff\Conscript
> 'cons build +stuff' builds only fooB\barA\stuff.
>  
> I'd like to keeping the intermediate-level Conscripts.  Can anyone
> think
> of a way to get build pruning to work without eliminating them?
>  
> Regards,
> Mark
>  
> 
>  
> 
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