[Scons-users] scons installation on Ubuntu 17.10

[Mark Diekhans]

I am trying to install scons on a fairly clean Ubuntu machine.

pip install SCons

installs it in:
   /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/scons-3.0.1/SCons/

Note that it is using dist-packages not site=packages,
apparently a debian thing.

running scons fails to find the package as sys.path  has become rather
managed:

    % scons
    SCons import failed. Unable to find engine files in:
      /usr/local/bin/../engine
      /usr/local/bin/scons-local-3.0.1
      /usr/local/bin/scons-local
      /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lib/scons-3.0.1
      /usr/local/lib/scons-3.0.1
      /usr/lib/scons-3.0.1
      /usr/local/lib/scons-3.0.1
      /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons-3.0.1
      /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons-3.0.1
      /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons-3.0.1
      /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons-3.0.1
      /usr/lib/scons-3.0.1
      /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lib/scons
      /usr/local/lib/scons
      /usr/lib/scons
      /usr/local/lib/scons
      /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons
      /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons
      /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons
      /usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons
      /usr/lib/scons
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/local/bin/scons", line 192, in <module>
        import SCons.Script
    ImportError: No module named SCons.Script

It works fine if install in a virtualenv

Sorry, do have time to debug right now, but will glad test proposed fixes.

Mark