[Scons-users] Is there a way to turn this warning message off?

[William Blevins]

My opinion is that none should express warnings.


On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 1:00 PM, Mark A. Flacy <mflacy at verizon.net> wrote:

> On Saturday, July 26, 2014 10:38:31 AM Dirk Bächle wrote:
> > Hi Mark,
> >
> > On 25.07.2014 22:53, Mark A. Flacy wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > The warning in question is...
> > >
> > > "scons: warning: No version of Visual Studio compiler found - C/C++
> > > compilers most likely not set correctly"
> > >
> > > Well, no shee-da.  I *don't* have a C/C++ compiler installed on that
> > > machine and don't intend to do so.  I'm not compiling C/C++, either.
>  I'm
> > > running xsltproc and some other non-compiling things.
> >
> > this has actually been discussed before at
> >
> > http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.programming.tools.scons.user/20861
> >
> > , and at least my personal position about this hasn't change since. Are
> > there any new findings that would justify another round of discussion
> > about this?
>
> As a tool user, I'd wonder why this one tool (out of all the tools that
> can be
> supported by scons) is the ONLY one that complains that it isn't
> initialized
> correctly.
>
> I think the correct behavior would be to have *all* tools complain when
> they
> cannot initialize or to have *none* of them do so.
>
> In my particular case, I do the original development on a linux box (where
> there is no warning generated about Visual Studio compilers) and pass the
> setup over to a Windows user who then asks me about the warning message.
>
> If it is supposed to be best practice to explicitly list the tools you are
> going to use in your environment, then all tools should complain when they
> cannot initialize correctly.  (That would include Visual Studio complaining
> when run in a non-Windows environment as well as others.)
>
> Should I submit a bug report?  I wasn't able to find one that matched the
> above
> thread.
>
> --
> Mark A. Flacy
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