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

[Mark A. Flacy]

On Saturday, July 26, 2014 11:05:16 PM Dirk Bächle wrote:
> On 26.07.2014 22:52, William Blevins wrote:
> > As Mark has already stated, this is a consistency problem.  Why do the
> > C/C++ tools complain by default when none of the other tools do?
> 
> Because the author(s) of the Tool chose to do so...and, in my opinion,
> they should be free to follow either way.

So much for consistent behavior across platforms.

> 
> > It would be reasonable to give a warning if the build called the C/C++
> > scanner for example, but in the case above, it sounds like the tool is
> > never used.
> 
> A Tool doesn't get used, it sets up and changes the Environment...mainly
> by adding Builders or tweaking environment variables. At the time a Tool
> gets initialized, it's not possible to decide whether a provided Builder
> will get used or not.
> 
> >  It is not reasonable for the warning just because SCons in running on
> > 
> > Windows and SCons happens to support C/C++.
> > 
> > I have a usage question. Does the warning still appear in you set the
> > DefaultEnvironment( tools = [] )?
> 
> The warning appears whenever you try to initialize the "msvs" Tool under
> Windows, without having a corresponding compiler installed. Setting
> "tools=[]" for all your environments would prevent this...

Or not sucking in all the tools by default would do the same.

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Mark A. Flacy