[Scons-dev] [Scons-users] Man page problems with installing latest scons from Bitbucket

[Gary Oberbrunner]

Just one more thing on this, redirecting to scons-dev.  I just updated
my SCons build VM to Trusty (14.04) from Precise (12.04), and I get
the same error Michael was seeing when trying to do a full packaging
build of SCons:
  error: [Errno 2] No such file or directory:
'/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/wininst-6.0.exe',
/usr/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/wininst-6.0.exe not included in
the Debian packages.

It seems the wininst-*.exe files have been removed from the
python2.7-dev package in 14.04, although they were there in 12.04.  I
worked around it by copying them from a Windows machine with python
distutils.  Grr.

-- Gary


On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 7:32 PM, Michael Jarvis <mjarvis.tx.08 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Gary, I "get it" now. :-)
>
> I have it installed successfully, and if I get time, I'll see what I can do
> to help out with some of the coding.
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Michael Jarvis <mjarvis.tx.08 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> > Thanks, initially I'd like to get it installed, but I will probably want
>> > to
>> > hack on it as well.
>>
>> OK, just do this then:
>>
>>   python setup.py install
>>
>> and you'll be good to go.
>>
>> > Installing "fop" solved my initial error, but now it's complaining
>> > because
>> > it's looking for Windows:
>>
>> As I said, if you really want to build your own installer packages (we
>> build for Windows as well as other OSes) you'll need various
>> additional dependencies.  But you _really_ don't need to do that.
>> Only the release team does.
>> ...
>> > It would be nice if there was a quick description of how to override
>> > them.
>> > Do I need to actually modify the SConstruct file in my copy of the
>> > repository, or can I just set environment variables?
>>
>> Neither.  Just don't try to do what you're doing.  :-)
>>
>> > I'm still learning the tool, so it may be that I just haven't read the
>> > documentation well enough.
>>
>> --
>> Gary
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-- 
Gary