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

[Daniel Holth]

I have published a special version called import_scons that's a wheel. It
doesn't install the script so you have to say python -m SCons to run. Maybe
it will be easier to get going.

On Sun, Aug 28, 2016, 20:20 Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:

> 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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