From ba4425ab5227fd9597fccd368bffff6bf1032149 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@debian.org>
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 11:25:53 +0200
Subject: Imported Upstream version 2.1.0

---
 doc/user/depends.xml | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 57 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'doc/user/depends.xml')

diff --git a/doc/user/depends.xml b/doc/user/depends.xml
index 430e64a..5b19220 100644
--- a/doc/user/depends.xml
+++ b/doc/user/depends.xml
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 <!--
 
-  Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 The SCons Foundation
+  Copyright (c) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 The SCons Foundation
 
   Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
   a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
@@ -488,7 +488,7 @@
       only its section of the input file.
       However, since the input file may contain a lot of data,
       we want to open the input file only if its timestamp has changed.
-      This could done with a custom
+      This could be done with a custom
       &Decider; function that might look something like this:
 
       </para>
@@ -587,6 +587,59 @@
 
       </para>
 
+      <para>
+
+      Another thing to look out for, is the fact that the three
+      attributes above may not be present at the time of the first run.
+      Without any prior build, no targets got created and no
+      <filename>.sconsign</filename> DB file exists yet.
+      So, it is recommended to always check whether the
+      <varname>prev_ni</varname> attribute in question is available.
+
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+
+      We finally present a small example for a
+      <varname>csig</varname>-based decider function. Note how the
+      signature information for the <varname>dependency</varname> file
+      has to get initialized via <function>get_csig</function>
+      during each function call (this is mandatory!).
+
+      </para>
+
+      <programlisting>
+        env = Environment()
+        
+        def config_file_decider(dependency, target, prev_ni):
+            import os.path
+        
+            # We always have to init the .csig value...
+            dep_csig = dependency.get_csig()
+            # .csig may not exist, because no target was built yet...
+            if 'csig' not in dir(prev_ni):
+                return True
+            # Target file may not exist yet
+            if not os.path.exists(str(target.abspath)):
+                return True
+            if dep_csig != prev_ni.csig:
+                # Some change on source file =&gt; update installed one
+                return True
+            return False
+        
+        def update_file():
+            f = open("test.txt","a")
+            f.write("some line\n")
+            f.close()
+            
+        update_file()
+        
+        # Activate our own decider function
+        env.Decider(config_file_decider)
+        
+        env.Install("install","test.txt")
+      </programlisting>
+
     </section>
 
     <section>
@@ -850,7 +903,7 @@
 
   </section>
 
-  <section>
+  <section id="sect-implicit-dependencies">
   <title>Implicit Dependencies:  The &cv-CPPPATH; Construction Variable</title>
 
     <para>
@@ -989,6 +1042,7 @@
        C:\><userinput>scons -Q hello.exe</userinput>
        cl /Fohello.obj /c hello.c /nologo /Iinclude /I\home\project\inc
        link /nologo /OUT:hello.exe hello.obj
+       embedManifestExeCheck(target, source, env)
     </screen>
 
   </section>
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