title: In scons, how to specify path of the target?
body: <p>I'm new to scons. I was trying to specify the path of the target. I don't want the executable to be generated in the same folder, in which the SConstruct file resides.</p>
  
  <p>I tried the following:
  (Suppose the SConstruct file resides in some folder 'Foo')</p>
  
  <pre><code>env.Program(
      #executable name
      target="~/Desktop/my_executable", 
       ...
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>However this <strong>creates</strong> directories <code>Foo/~/Desktop/</code> and places the target <code>my_executable</code> into the leaf directory. </p>
  
  <p>How do I get scons to generate the target inside some fixed folder? I'm using linux.</p>