[Scons-users] "pip install scons" result in a broken installation that is unusable

[Bill Deegan]

Sam,

Try:

# update your pip and wheel package there have been significant changes
since py 2.7.14
pip install -U pip wheel
Then retry installing scons.

-Bill

On Wed, Oct 10, 2018 at 3:53 AM Fux Samuel (ID SIS) <samuel.fux at id.ethz.ch>
wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I installed scons 3.0.1 with the command
>
> pip install scons
>
> on our hpc cluster, using Python 2.7.14. The installation seems to be
> pretty broken:
>
> [sfux at lo-login-02 ~]$ *pip install scons*
> Collecting scons
> Installing collected packages: scons
> Successfully installed scons-3.0.1
> You are using pip version 9.0.3, however version 18.1 is available.
> You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip'
> command.
> [sfux at lo-login-02 ~]$ *scons*
> SCons import failed. Unable to find engine files in:
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/bin/../engine
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/bin/scons-local-3.0.1
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/bin/scons-local
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/lib/scons-3.0.1
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib/scons-3.0.1
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib/scons-3.0.1
>
> /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons-3.0.1
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons-3.0.1
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons-3.0.1
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib64/scons-3.0.1
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/lib/scons
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib/scons
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib/scons
>
> /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib64/python2.7/site-packages/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib/python2.7/site-packages/scons
>   /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/lib64/scons
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/bin/scons", line 192, in <module>
>     import SCons.Script
> ImportError: No module named SCons.Script
> [sfux at lo-login-02 ~]$ *which python*
> /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/bin/python
> [sfux at lo-login-02 ~]$ *which pip*
> /cluster/apps/python/2.7.14/bin/pip
> [sfux at lo-login-02 ~]$ *cat /etc/redhat-release *
> CentOS Linux release 7.5.1804 (Core)
> [sfux at lo-login-02 ~]$
>
> Is this a known problem ?
>
> Can scons be installed with pip without using a virtualenv ?
>
> Best regards
>
> Sam
>
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