[Scons-users] Man page problems with installing latest scons from Bitbucket

[Michael Jarvis]

Thanks, Gary, I "get it" now. :-)

I have it installed successfully, and if I get time, I'll see what I can do
to help out with some of the coding.


On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:42 PM, Gary Oberbrunner <garyo at oberbrunner.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 6:25 PM, Michael Jarvis <mjarvis.tx.08 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Thanks, initially I'd like to get it installed, but I will probably want
> to
> > hack on it as well.
>
> OK, just do this then:
>
>   python setup.py install
>
> and you'll be good to go.
>
> > Installing "fop" solved my initial error, but now it's complaining
> because
> > it's looking for Windows:
>
> As I said, if you really want to build your own installer packages (we
> build for Windows as well as other OSes) you'll need various
> additional dependencies.  But you _really_ don't need to do that.
> Only the release team does.
> ...
> > It would be nice if there was a quick description of how to override
> them.
> > Do I need to actually modify the SConstruct file in my copy of the
> > repository, or can I just set environment variables?
>
> Neither.  Just don't try to do what you're doing.  :-)
>
> > I'm still learning the tool, so it may be that I just haven't read the
> > documentation well enough.
>
> --
> Gary
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*Michael Jarvis*
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