[Scons-users] scons 'v fails

[daggs]

pkg mgr, other users on the system use the same version without any issues

$ python -V
Python 3.9.18

>Sent: Monday, March 04, 2024 at 9:10 PM
>From: "Bill Deegan" <bill at baddogconsulting.com>
>To: "SCons users mailing list" <scons-users at scons.org>
>Cc: "daggs" <daggs at gmx.com>
>Subject: Re: [Scons-users] scons 'v fails
>
>How did they install SCons?
>(command line for install)
>Which version of python? 
>
>On Mon, Mar 4, 2024 at 8:32 AM daggs via Scons-users <scons-users at scons.org[mailto:scons-users at scons.org]> wrote:> Sent: Monday, March 04, 2024 at 6:47 PM
>> From: "Mats Wichmann" <mats at wichmann.us[mailto:mats at wichmann.us]>
>> To: scons-users at scons.org[mailto: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.
>>
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>rhel 9.3, kernel 5.14.0-362.18.1.el9_3.x86_64
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>any other info needed?
>