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Damascus Steel
Damascus Steel

Reputation: 323

How to create a directory when building with waf

As part of my build, I need to create a directory. With waf, I can, for example, create symlinks with Build.BuildContext.symlink_as. But I can not find something like mkdir. What is the best way to create an empty directory (ideally at install time).

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1001

Answers (1)

neuro
neuro

Reputation: 15180

You have a mkdir() method in the Node object. So you can do something like:

def build(bld):

    # create foo directory in the build directory 

    bld.path.get_bld().make_node("foo").mkdir()

WAF usually create directories whenever needed.

If you want to create a directory outside of the build tree, when installing, you can use bare python, like:

import os

def build(bld):

    if bld.cmd == "install":

        d = os.path.join(bld.options.destdir, "what/ever/you/want")
        if not os.path.exists(d):
            os.makedirs(d)

Note that bld.options.destdir can be modified by the --destdir option :)

Upvotes: 1

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