[Scons-dev] [Fwd: [Scons-users] [patch] SCons fails to run in standalone mode]

[Russel Winder]

On Sun, 2013-07-14 at 10:40 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote:
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> This seems to work well for you, so stick to it.



:-)


[…]

> This appears to work well for me (it has other advantages), so I'll 

> stick to it. ;)



:-))



> The role of bootstrap.py is probably defined quite well, so I don't see 

> a need to discuss it at the moment. All I wanted to offer is the simple 

> scripts that I use to start SCons directly, such that we could replace 

> the misleading instructions in the REAME.rst by a pointer to the files.

> Fixing the text, as Rob suggested, would be another option of course.


Sadly we cannot ignore the fact that the behaviour of bootstrap.py has
recently changed and is now broken for those who used it as a bootstrap
to use SCons from their repository checkout.

We need to revert the change or apply one of the known fixes. Currently
there is no action, just talk :-(

-- 
Russel.
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