[Scons-users] StaticLibrary builder

[Gary Oberbrunner]

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 12:35 PM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 2012-08-08 at 10:55 -0400, Gary Oberbrunner wrote:

>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 10:39 AM, Russel Winder <russel at winder.org.uk> wrote:

>> > environment = Environment(tools=['g++','gnulink'])

>>

>> try tools=['default', 'g++', 'gnulink']

>> otherwise your env has no tools except the ones you defined.

>

> A number of thoughts:

>

> 1.  g++ and gnulink define a complete toolchain. so why do I need more.

> Actually I shouldn't need gnulink given I said g++ but I don't get the

> Program builder without a link tool.


Because tools don't have dependencies, so just because it *looks* like
a complete toolchain doesn't mean it works that way.  (There is no
real concept of a toolchain in SCons yet.)  If you added gcc it might
have worked.


> 2.  I actively want to stop some tools being initialized because they

> are broken. It's OK, I broke them, they are experiments that I need to

> be able to selectively ignore.


Some of the default tools?  Or your own?


> 3. Surely tools=['default', 'g++', 'gnulink'] is just redundant since g

> ++ and gnulink are initialized by default anyway?


If you're on Linux (or Mac I think) then the above should be true.


> 4. tools=['default', 'g++', 'gnulink'] does actually work for me, which

> means I now have no understanding of what is happening.


Does it work with tools=['default']?  (I.e. no additional tools)  If
so, your explanation above explains it.

-- 
Gary