[Scons-users] env.command fails on mingw shell

Gary Oberbrunner garyo at oberbrunner.com
Thu Oct 25 17:53:53 EDT 2012


On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 5:43 PM, Evan Driscoll <driscoll at cs.wisc.edu> wrote:


> The Cygwin version of SCons (if you install SCons with Cygwin Python)

> will use a Cygwin shell.

>


Everything Evan says here is true, and very important. I'll just add that
using SCons with Cygwin python is not recommended, at least not by me.
It's not well tested, and you would be subject to whatever cygwin-isms the
python forces on you. Native python is much better, IMHO.

--
Gary
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