[Scons-users] error 127

[Peter Kerpedjiev]

On 6/4/14, 9:27 AM, Pawel Tomulik wrote:
> W dniu 02.06.2014 06:55, Peter Kerpedjiev pisze:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm getting an error 127 and have no idea why. It comes up after running
>> a simple cat command. Here's the relevant sections of the SConstruct 
>> file:
>>
>> import os
>>
>> env = Environment(ENV=os.environ)
>> consolidate_angles = Builder(action="cat $SOURCES > $TARGET")
>> ...
>> env.consolidate(output_angles, angles_files)
>>
>> Where output_angles = 'some_file.csv' and angles_files = ['file1.csv',
>> 'file2.csv', ... ]. I've attached the output and the error I get. The
>> array angles_files has about 5000 entries. If I reduce it to 3000,
>> the build completes without errors. If I take entries 3000 - 5000,
>> I also don't get any errors, leading me to believe that it's the length
>> of the argument list that's problematic. If I run the corresponding
>> command with all 5000 arguments on the command line, it works fine.
>>
>> Any ideas about why this happens and/or how to fix it? Like I said, if I
>> copy and paste the command into bash, it works just fine. It's also the
>> last command in the SConstruct file, if that makes any difference.
>>
>
>
> Maybe SCons uses different shell? Maybe it spawns the command in 
> completely different manner (not using a shell?). You may try to 
> implement and run simple 'echo $SHELL' command from SCons to see what 
> you deal with.
>
The output is 'sh'. Is there a way to force it to use bash? I'm calling 
scons from a bash shell.