[Scons-users] parse error using $()

[Bill Deegan]

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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