Hierarchical Builds

SConstruct and SConscript files

By default, scons searches for a file named SConstruct, Sconstruct, or sconstruct (in that order) in the current directory and reads its configuration from the first file found.

Building locally to a sub-directory

changing directory and invoking scons with the -u option, which traverses up the directory hierarchy until it finds the SConstruct file, and then builds targets relatively to the current subdirectory:

cd src/subdir
scons -u .