From: stevenknight <stevenknight@fdb21ef1-2011-0410-befe-b5e4ea1792b1>
Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 05:54:02 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Allow hybrid substitutions in PATH-like variables.  (Charles Crain)
X-Git-Url: http://git.tremily.us/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=2b9fc5e27b7ec259db38ae96d693b48525f39677;p=scons.git

Allow hybrid substitutions in PATH-like variables.  (Charles Crain)


git-svn-id: http://scons.tigris.org/svn/scons/trunk@940 fdb21ef1-2011-0410-befe-b5e4ea1792b1
---

diff --git a/src/CHANGES.txt b/src/CHANGES.txt
index 0e4d4d89..b546b794 100644
--- a/src/CHANGES.txt
+++ b/src/CHANGES.txt
@@ -16,6 +16,12 @@ RELEASE 0.96 - XXX
 
   - Allow construction variable substitutions in $LIBS specifications.
 
+  From Charles Crain:
+
+  - Restore the ability to do construction variable substitutions in all
+    kinds of *PATH variables, even when the substitution returns a Node
+    or other object.
+
   From Tom Epperly:
 
   - Allow the Java() Builder to take more than one source directory.
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/Environment.py b/src/engine/SCons/Environment.py
index e332f66f..e75ac387 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/Environment.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/Environment.py
@@ -432,7 +432,13 @@ class Base:
             if SCons.Util.is_String(p):
                 p = self.subst(p, conv=s)
                 if SCons.Util.is_List(p):
-                    p = p[0]
+                    if len(p) == 1:
+                        p = p[0]
+                    else:
+                        # We have an object plus a string, or multiple
+                        # objects that we need to smush together.  No choice
+                        # but to make them into a string.
+                        p = string.join(map(SCons.Util.to_String, p), '')
             else:
                 p = s(p)
             r.append(p)
diff --git a/src/engine/SCons/EnvironmentTests.py b/src/engine/SCons/EnvironmentTests.py
index b2b17e14..53a6905c 100644
--- a/src/engine/SCons/EnvironmentTests.py
+++ b/src/engine/SCons/EnvironmentTests.py
@@ -444,6 +444,24 @@ class EnvironmentTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
         r = env.subst_path(['$PROXY', MyProxy('my2'), n])
         assert r == ['my1-proxy', 'my2-proxy', n], r
 
+        class StringableObj:
+            def __init__(self, s):
+                self.s = s
+            def __str__(self):
+                return self.s
+
+        env = Environment(FOO=StringableObj("foo"),
+                          BAR=StringableObj("bar"))
+
+        r = env.subst_path([ "${FOO}/bar", "${BAR}/baz" ])
+        assert r == [ "foo/bar", "bar/baz" ]
+
+        r = env.subst_path([ "bar/${FOO}", "baz/${BAR}" ])
+        assert r == [ "bar/foo", "baz/bar" ]
+
+        r = env.subst_path([ "bar/${FOO}/bar", "baz/${BAR}/baz" ])
+        assert r == [ "bar/foo/bar", "baz/bar/baz" ]
+
     def test_Builder_calls(self):
         """Test Builder calls through different environments
         """