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scons: Document the need to manually remove .sconsign.dblite
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If .sconsign.dblite exists then scons may not rebuild everything.
So to force scons to rebuilt everything you need to remove that
file.
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garyemiller committed Oct 16, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -204,11 +204,11 @@ To build gpsd for your host platform from source, simply call 'scons'
in a working-directory copy. (Cross-build is described in a later
section.)

To clean the built files, call 'scons -c' . To clean scons' cache,
call 'scons sconsclean'. Doing both should return your working directory
to a near pristine state as far as building is concerned. Some user
created files may remain, and source code changes will not have been
reverted..
To clean the built files, call 'scons -c' . To clean scons' cache, call
'scons sconsclean'. Run 'rm -f .sconsign.dblite' to clear the scons
database. Doing all three should return your working directory to a
near pristine state as far as building is concerned. Some user created
files may remain, and source code changes will not have been reverted..

You can specify the installation prefix, as for an autotools build, by
running "scons prefix=<installation_root>". The default value is
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