[Scons-users] parse error using $()

[Noah Hoffman]

I can confirm that the changes in Subst.py fix the error (also noted
in a comment on the PR)

Thanks a lot! Very happy to see python3 support by the way - congrats
on a big milestone.
Noah

On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 6:17 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com> wrote:
> O.k. I created a pull request with a fix and tests to cover this issue.
>
> See:
>
> https://github.com/SConsProject/scons/pull/4
>
> Please try the changes in your build and let us know if it resolves the
> issue for you.
> (You'll need the changes in Subst.py)
>
> On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 1:14 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Likely due to a patch to allow recursive signature escaping which made it
>> into 3.0.
>> I'll take a look and see if I can fix.
>>
>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 8:01 PM, Bill Deegan <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Is that with python3 or python2?
>>>
>>> On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 4:12 PM, Noah Hoffman <noah.hoffman at gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> I've noticed a change in way that scons parses command strings in
>>>> version 3.0 that results in an error. Here's a minimal example (with
>>>> python 2.7.11 in a virtualenv):
>>>>
>>>> % cat SConstruct
>>>> env = Environment(SHELL='bash')
>>>>
>>>> env.Command(
>>>>     target='foo.txt',
>>>>     source='SConstruct',
>>>>     action='echo $$(pwd) > $TARGET',
>>>> )
>>>> % pip install 'scons<3.0'
>>>> % scons --version
>>>> SCons by Steven Knight et al.:
>>>>         script: v2.5.1.rel_2.5.1:3735:9dc6cee5c168[MODIFIED],
>>>> 2016/11/03 14:02:02, by bdbaddog on mongodog
>>>> % scons
>>>> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
>>>> scons: done reading SConscript files.
>>>> scons: Building targets ...
>>>> scons: `.' is up to date.
>>>> scons: done building targets.
>>>> % pip install -U scons
>>>> % scons --version
>>>> SCons by Steven Knight et al.:
>>>>         script: v3.0.0.rel_3.0.0:4395:8972f6a2f699[MODIFIED],
>>>> 2017/09/18 13:28:16, by bdbaddog on ubuntu-16
>>>> % scons
>>>> scons: Reading SConscript files ...
>>>> scons: done reading SConscript files.
>>>> scons: Building targets ...
>>>> scons: *** [foo.txt] Unbalanced $(/$) in: echo $(pwd) > foo.txt
>>>> scons: building terminated because of errors.
>>>>
>>>> I tried various strategies for escaping the dollar signs and
>>>> parentheses without success.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for any help,
>>>> Noah
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>>
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