Question

I know we can force a quiet mode from scons command option by doing the following

$ scons -Q

Now i would like to be able to forced that option inside the SConstruct file itself. I have been though all the documentation without finding anything. Do you have any clue on how to do it ?

Answer 1

No, it’s option is not supported.

List of supported options that can be set via SetOption(name, value) are:

• clean – which corresponds to -c, –clean and –remove;
• duplicate – which corresponds to –duplicate;
• help – which corresponds to -h and –help;
• implicit_cache – which corresponds to –implicit-cache;
• max_drift – which corresponds to –max-drift;
• no_exec – which corresponds to -n, –no-exec, –just-print, –dry-run
  and –recon;
• num_jobs – which corresponds to -j and –jobs;
• random – which corresponds to –random; and
• stack_size – which corresponds to –stack-size.

So, you can get it but can’t set.

print GetOption('silent')
SetOption('silent', 1)

scons.bat
scons: Reading SConscript files ...

scons: *** This option is not settable from a SConscript file: silent
File "E:\Programming\test\scons\2\SConstruct", line 1, in <module>
PS E:\Programming\test\scons\2>
PS E:\Programming\test\scons\2> scons.bat
scons: Reading SConscript files ...
False

scons: *** This option is not settable from a SConscript file: silent
File "SConstruct", line 2, in <module>