Re: How to use Command

[Timothee Besset]

Well you can write some perl code which generates the complete list of
dependencies for you? Run the loop, feed it through ->Depends() ? (if I
remember correctly)

TTimo

On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 08:50:04 +0100
"BUFFERNE,VINCENT (HP-France,ex1)" <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> I am using cons to build my software. During my build I produce a shar file
> with:
> 
> $local_env->Command("foo", qq (
>      shar $script_dir > %>
> )
> );
> 
> This shar hundreds of files. I do not want to maintain such a huge list of
> dependencies; it is why I have removed dependencies in "Command".
> But if I modify one of the file that I want to shar, Cons will not detect
> the change (as their is no dependencies) and will retrieve the shar file
> from its cache.
> 
> I have found a workaround using a dummy file that I "touch" when I want to
> force the production of a new shar file:
> 
> $local_env->Command("foo", "dummy_file" ,qq (
>      shar $script_dir > %>
> )
> );
> 
> But I not really happy with it. Do you have any suggestions ???
> 
> Vincent
> 
> 
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