[Scons-users] installing scons via `pip install scons` doesn't work.

Bill Deegan bill at baddogconsulting.com
Sun Aug 28 20:20:53 EDT 2016


Seems that pip inside a virtualenv works.
But not outside.
I think that's the current situation.

Also any way to tell what version of pip is being run?

-Bill

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016 at 6:14 PM, Stefan Seefeld <stefan at seefeld.name> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm trying to install scons via `pip install scons`, and get the
> following cryptic error:
>
>
> $ pip install scons
> Collecting scons
>   Using cached scons-2.5.0.tar.gz
> Installing collected packages: scons
>   Running setup.py install for scons ... error
>     Complete output from command /usr/bin/python -u -c "import
> setuptools,
> tokenize;__file__='/tmp/pip-build-UnhHp6/scons/setup.py';
> exec(compile(getattr(tokenize,
> 'open', open)(__file__).read().replace('\r\n', '\n'), __file__,
> 'exec'))" install --record /tmp/pip-zIuAOx-record/install-record.txt
> --single-version-externally-managed --compile:
>     usage: -c [global_opts] cmd1 [cmd1_opts] [cmd2 [cmd2_opts] ...]
>        or: -c --help [cmd1 cmd2 ...]
>        or: -c --help-commands
>        or: -c cmd --help
>
>     error: option --single-version-externally-managed not recognized
>
>
> Any idea what is causing this, and how to fix it ?
>
> Thanks,
>
>         Stefan
>
> PS: I'm actually trying to upgrade to a newer version of scons in a
> travis-ci environment (the default version is 2.3.0 - too old for me as
> it doesn't support clang), and so I hoped that `pip` would be able to
> help...
>
>
>
> --
>
>       ...ich hab' noch einen Koffer in Berlin...
>
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