I'll take a look at this tomorrow.

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Subject: [CSOUND-DEV:4603] Request help on scons


> I did some major surgery on the error strings a couple of days ago,
> and so the .xmg databases need to me rebuilt.  This seemed not to me
> present in the SConstruct file, so I tried to add it.  Clearly I do
> not understand scons syntax I added
>
> opts.Add('generateXmg',
>     'Set to 1 to generate string database',
>     0)
>
> and
>
> if commonEnvironment['generateXmg'] == 1:
>     print "Calling makedb"
>     xmgs = commonEnvironment.Command('American.xmg',
['strings/all_strings'], './makedb strings/all_strings American')
>     xmgs1 = commonEnvironment.Command('English.xmg',
['strings/english_strings'], './makedb strings/english_strings English')
>     xmgs2 = commonEnvironment.Command('csound.xmg',
['strings/english_strings'], './makedb strings/english_strings csound')
>     Depends(xmgs, makedb)
>     Depends(xmgs1, makedb)
>     Depends(xmgs2, makedb)
>
> but it does nothing, not even doing the print as happens in TAG even
> when TAGS are not rebuilt.  Please educate me, or fix, or both
>
> ==John ffitch
>
>