[Scons-users] Fwd: Problems with SCons building MongoDB C++ Driver

[Andrew C. Morrow]

Hi -

Unfortunately, I was never able to reproduce Brian's issue so I was unable
to debug it. As far as I am aware no resolution was reached.

Thanks,
Andrew




On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 4:10 AM, Andrew Featherstone <
andrew.featherstone at cantab.net> wrote:

> Hi Andrew M,
>
> I was wondering if you'd managed to track down your issue? It'd be great
> to know that things are fixed, or possibly try and give you a few more
> suggestions. It's excellent to see such a prominent project using SCons.
>
> Regards,
> Andrew
>
>
> On 7 August 2014 23:59, Dirk Bächle <tshortik at gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> Hi Andrew,
>>
>> On 07.08.2014 17:02, Andrew C. Morrow wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> Hi Bill -
>>>
>>> Brian actually already did ping us over on the mongodb-user list:
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/mongodb-user/2tr8AWdfHtI <
>>> https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/mongodb-user/2tr8AWdfHtI>
>>>
>>>  I had a short look at the thread right now.
>>
>>  We are as puzzled as he is. I've never seen the Configure part of the
>>> build fail in this way. The minimal SCons linked in the mongodb-user group
>>> post works for him, but the same logic fails in the context of the larger
>>> SConstruct for the mongo C++ driver.
>>>
>>>  Another thing to try would be to switch the Configure steps, so let it
>> check for the C compiler first...and then the CXX test. Does the C check
>> run successfully then? I'm not a Windows guy and have no clue either, but
>> maybe a relative "cd ..." command in vcvars*.bat changes the current
>> working directory? So, after the first Configure check SCons is not in the
>> folder it's supposed to be anymore.
>>
>> Other things that come to my mind:
>>
>> - Try with the latest SCons version v2.3.2 from the development repo.
>> - Replace the "tools=['default',...]" list in the constructor of the
>> Environment with the absolute minimum for C/CXX compiling:
>>     tools=['mslink','msvc','mslib','msvs']
>>   (not sure about the last one). Maybe some tool is going havoc and
>> creating problems when loaded.
>> - Does the user have any D tools installed (dmd, gdc, ldc)? Support for
>> these has been added only recently, so maybe it's the combination of
>> D+VS2013 that mixes things up.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Dirk
>>
>>
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