If you need to create a directory,
use the Mkdir
factory.
For example, if we need to process
a file in a temporary directory
in which the processing tool
will create other files that we don't care about,
you could use:
Command( "file.out", "file.in", action=[ Delete("tempdir"), Mkdir("tempdir"), Copy("tempdir/${SOURCE.file}", "$SOURCE"), "process tempdir", Move("$TARGET", "tempdir/output_file"), Delete("tempdir"), ], )
Which executes as:
% scons -Q
Delete("tempdir")
Mkdir("tempdir")
Copy("tempdir/file.in", "file.in")
process tempdir
Move("file.out", "tempdir/output_file")
scons: *** [file.out] tempdir/output_file: No such file or directory