[Scons-users] passing o/s environment to children in a builder

[Bill Deegan]

Tom,
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 7:26 AM, Tom Tanner (BLOOMBERG/ LONDON) <
ttanner2 at bloomberg.net> wrote:


> There's a few utilities we have that expect to be run with enough of a

> path to find things in /usr/bin, but in the main I'd prefer to avoid

> passing that in env['ENV']['PATH'] as (at least under make), it lead to

> some very sloppy and non-portable coding.

>

> But I can't find any way of passing an environment down to an action

> object from a builder without doing something like PATH=/usr/bin in the

> command line, which looks painful. Am I missing something?

>


So clone your environment, and change the PATH for the one you use for that
tool.

-Bill
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