[Scons-dev] Using SCons via bootstrap.py

[Russel Winder]

On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 13:29 -0400, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:

> On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk>wrote:

> 

> > On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 09:48 +0200, Dirk Bächle wrote:

> > […]

> > > But it still works if you start the "bootstrap.py" from the top-level

> > > folder ("SCons_D_Tooling" in your case), right?

> >

> > I have never tried that, I am not sure what the use case would be for

> > non-SCons-itself builds as you would have to give the absolute path to

> > the SConstruct you wanted run.

> >

> 

> The main use case for that is building SCons with itself: 'python

> bootstrap.py'.


Not for developers using tip, the main use case of the command line:

	pypy /path/to/scons/bootstrap.py

is to build whatever it is they want to build. Building SCons is a
side-effect!


:-)


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