[Bf-committers] mingw&Scons

[Chris Want]

Joe Eagar wrote:
>>> Linking library ==> 'libsrc.a'
>>> scons: building terminated because of errors.
>>> scons: *** [C:\msys\home\cw\blender\build\win32-mingw\lib\libsrc.a] 
>>> Error 1
>>
>> This is a known and annoying bug.  In scons you cannot have a long 
>> pathname like c:\msys\home\bleh bleh.  It's best to put your blender 
>> dir right in c:\ in fact.
>>
>> joeedh 
> 
> I amend that, you can put it inside a subdir.  but go beyond one dir 
> level and you get problems, or at least that is my experience.

I recently made a modification to the Make build because
IRIX had a similar problem archiving the object files
from source/blender/src. The fix is to cd into the
object dir before archiving. More details here:

http://projects.blender.org/pipermail/bf-blender-cvs/2006-February/006083.html

Chris