[Scons-dev] Time for a show down…

[Russel Winder]

TestSCons.TestSCons.where_is searches the user's path for an executable.
When running tests SCons does not use the users path, just the default
system path, to search for executables. where_is is therefore either
broken or useless.

Personally I vote for broken since this seems the only instance where
SCons uses the user path implicitly by default. In all other situations
user path must be added explicitly. And where_is is a great test for use
in tests. 

Is there another tool in SCons for testing whether and executable is in
the path SCons will actually use for lookup?
 
-- 
Russel.
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