[Scons-dev] SCons doesn't bootstrap without libxml2

[Russel Winder]

On Wed, 2014-02-19 at 16:44 +0000, Managan, Rob wrote:
[…]

> You can execute the local SCons directly from the src/ subdirectory by

> first setting the SCONS_LIB_DIR environment variable to the local

> src/engine subdirectory, and then executing the local src/script/scons.py

> script to populate the build/scons/ subdirectory. You would do this as

> follows on a Linux or UNIX system (using sh or a derivative like bash or

> kWh):

> 

> $ setenv MYSCONS=`pwd`/src

> $ setenv SCONS_LIB_DIR=$MYSCONS/engine

> $ python $MYSCONS/script/scons.py [arguments]

[…]

I guess the reason I haven't tried this is that it populates the source
tree with .pyc files whereas using the bootstrap.py it leaves the source
tree untouched. Maybe I should just get used to pollution :-) 

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