[Scons-users] Retrieving variables

[Bill Deegan]

On Sun, Jun 19, 2016 at 5:43 PM, Stefan Seefeld <stefan at seefeld.name> wrote:

> On 17.06.2016 14:37, Dirk Baechle wrote:
> > Hi Stefan,
> >
> > this sounds very much as if you're actually looking for the new
> > Toolchain design that Gary is working on.
> > I see the chance of you two and Jason Kenny sticking your heads
> > together and coming up with something really good. ;)
>
> Any chance to learn more about this ? And is there any documentation
> describing the existing behavior ? How is a toolchain being picked by
> default ? I see (by looking into the code) that there are prioritized
> lists for each platform. Is the idea simply to iterate over such a list
> until the first entry that "works" ?


Yes, that's how it's currently implemented.


> And, in the existing logic, what is
> the supposed way to override that list, or to explicitly pick a toolchain ?
>

You specify a list or individual tools either via Environment(tools=[my
list ]), or env.Tools() after passing tools=[] to your Environment()

-Bill


>
> Thanks,
>         Stefan
>
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