Re: scons v4.3.0-1 outputs nothing on cygwin v2. 3.1

[William Deegan <bdbaddog@gmail.com>]

save this as SConstruct.simple

print("I'm in a SConstruct")

Then run
scons -f SConstruct.simple

Do you get any output?





On Sun, May 15, 2022 at 6:44 PM Martin Ortuno <
martinortunogonzalez@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> Here the results...
>
> $ which -a alternatives
>
> /usr/sbin/alternatives
>
>
>
> Then..
>
> $ ls -glo $(which -a alternatives)
>
> -rwxrwx---+ 1 18944 Apr  5  2009 /usr/sbin/alternatives
>
>
>
> After that I ran…
>
> $ /usr/sbin/alternatives --verbose --auto python
>
> reading /var/lib/alternatives/python
>
>
>
> Just to see if that helped I ran:
>
> $ /usr/sbin/alternatives --test --auto python
>
> auto
>
> /usr/bin/python
>
>
>
> /usr/bin/python3.9
>
> 39
>
> would link /etc/alternatives/python -> /usr/bin/python3.9
>
>
>
> Finally I ran:
>
>
>
> $ /usr/sbin/alternatives --display python
>
> python - status is auto.
>
> link currently points to /usr/bin/python3.9
>
> /usr/bin/python3.9 - priority 39
>
> Current `best' version is /usr/bin/python3.9.
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
> El dom., 15 de mayo de 2022 7:59 p. m., Ken Brown <kbrown@cornell.edu>
> escribió:
>
> > On 5/15/2022 6:03 PM, Martin Ortuno wrote:
> > > $ ls -glo /usr/bin/python
> > >
> > > lrwxrwxrwx 1 13 Jun  3  2015 /usr/bin/python -> python2.7.exe
> >
> > This shows that you have a very old version of python2, going back to
> > before the
> > python versions were managed by the alternatives system.
> >
> > You can't expect to have a working Cygwin installation if you selectively
> > update
> > some packages while keeping old versions of others.  I suggest that you
> > update
> > to the current release of each package.
> >
> > Ken
> >
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