[Scons-dev] Tests fails

[Russel Winder]

On Mon, 2014-03-03 at 09:19 +0000, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) wrote:

> On the OSX one, it looks like you don't have SWIG and RANLIB installed

> and it's not recognising that it hasn't. I seem to remember having to

> install a lot of software on my linux (Ubuntu) box in order to get the

> tests to run clean. If that's the case, I'd imagine it's a bug really.


I definitely have swig and ranlib installed on OSX, just via MacPorts.
This is another aspect of SCons' assumption that everything executable
is in /usr/bin. I really think we have to introduce a "path for test
execution on your platform" so that I can make my machines look as I
want them to for testing.

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