[Scons-users] scons 'v fails

[daggs]

> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2024 at 6:47 PM
> From: "Mats Wichmann" <mats at wichmann.us>
> To: scons-users at scons.org
> Subject: Re: [Scons-users] scons 'v fails
>
> On 3/4/24 08:25, daggs via Scons-users wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > I've encountered a user on one of our systems where scons -v fails.
> > this is the output:
> > $ scons -v
> > Traceback (most recent call last):
> >    File "/usr/bin/scons", line 33, in <module>
> >      sys.exit(load_entry_point('SCons==4.5.2', 'console_scripts', 'scons')())
> >    File "/usr/bin/scons", line 25, in importlib_load_entry_point
> >      return next(matches).load()
> > StopIteration
> >
> > any ideas what can cause it?
>
> That's weird.  I didn't think the entry_point magic even got invoked on
> Linux. Is there more information, like distro name/version? Have VMs
> here of various Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, Mint and Centos-like here where
> could crosscheck. It *could* be a packaging problem, though I don't want
> to point fingers elsewhere without more info.
>

rhel 9.3, kernel 5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3.x86_64

any other info needed?