[Scons-dev] Vague recollection of reporting a problem

[Dirk Bächle]

On 21.01.2014 18:39, Russel Winder wrote:

> It is clearly the case that TestSCons.TestSCons().where_is(toolSequence)

> uses the users current PATH to search. However when the tool is actually

> used, the stripped down PATH is used. This means there appears to be no

> way of checking whether a test will fail due to a failure to find the

> executable of a tool.

>

> Or am I missing something?

>

The method where_is() accepts a "path" as second argument, that is used 
for searching if specified. So you could call TestSCons.where_is() with 
the stripped down PATH variable as well. This should then give identical 
results...haven't tried though. ;)

Regards,

Dirk