[Scons-users] unable to install scons-3.1.2 locally from src on centos 7.9 with python3.6

[Bill Deegan]

Dagg,

As Steve mentioned, virtualenv is really a good way to resolve this.

BTW. any reason you can't use a newer SCons version?

-Bill
SCons Project Co-Manager

On Tue, Aug 3, 2021 at 8:08 AM daggs <daggs at gmx.com> wrote:

> Greetings Mats,
>
> > Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2021 at 5:14 PM
> > From: "Mats Wichmann" <mats at wichmann.us>
> > To: scons-users at scons.org
> > Subject: Re: [Scons-users] unable to install scons-3.1.2 locally from
> src on centos 7.9 with python3.6
> >
> > On 8/3/21 6:45 AM, daggs wrote:
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > I need to run scons 3.1.2 on centos 7.9 using the latest python the os
> has to offer (python 3.6.x) but the system's scons is bind to python 2.7.x
> so I', trying to install it manually.
> > > I've downloaded the src, unpacked it, entered scons-3.1.2/src and ran
> the following command: python3 setup.py install
> --prefix=/home/daggs/newscons as the manual stats.
> > >
> > > but the installation fails with the following error: file
> '/home/daggs/src/scons/scons-3.1.2/src/script/scons' does not exist
> > > under /home/daggs/src/scons/scons-3.1.2/src/script/scons there is no
> scons file but there is scons.po
> > >
> > > full log at https://dpaste.org/2w9B
> > >
> > > what am I missing?
> > >
> >
> > You're missing that CentOS has a package for what you need...
> >
> > yum install python36-scons
> >
> > (call it as scons-3, not scons)
>
> thanks, I'll check it out
>
> Dagg
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