[Scons-users] does use of Configure (e.g. CheckLib) scupper dry run mode?

[Mats Wichmann]

On 05/26/2017 09:55 AM, Bill Deegan wrote:
> Is this a project where you can share the scons logic?
> (open source?)

Yeah... it's just it gets convoluted.

Mirror is here:

https://github.com/iotivity/iotivity

and an abort comes from here, if I avoid an earlier one that actually
doesn't need to do a configure check:

https://github.com/iotivity/iotivity/blob/master/service/third_party_libs.scons


scons: *** Cannot update configure test ".sconf_temp/conftest_0.cpp"
within a dry-run.
File "/home/mats/iotivity.work/service/third_party_libs.scons", line 52,
in <module>

line 52 is:

 if target_os not in ['tizen'] and not conf.CheckLib('boost_thread',
language='C++'):